11.   And the possibility, particularly for husbands, of losing a significant part of their pension rights on divorce will focus their minds on the value of those rights.

12.   Book publishers, like journalists, have to make quick decisions, and nothing focuses their minds so sharply as a crescendo of daily headlines and news bites.

13.   A near-death experience, Pacheco says, focuses the mind wonderfully.

14.   But does it focus the mind on the play?

15.   But his mind was still focused on the day before, when he sat in the gallery of the state Senate chambers in Albany, watching a dream evaporate.

16.   But my mind is focused on what I need to do.

17.   But the current turmoil focuses minds on the need for talk with Japanese reformists about ways competition can help turn their economy around.

18.   But those monthly crises at least focused the minds of New Yorkers in a way that the problems of today do not.

19.   Certainly the tens of millions of dollars in legal settlements should focus the mind.

20.   Danger and mortality focus the mind.