1.   And American officials are increasingly focusing on banking troubles in China.

2.   After almost a week of searching for people buried by a massive earthquake, Taiwanese officials are focusing on the survivors.

3.   But administration officials have not focused on that part of the agreement in an effort to avoid angering lawmakers who oppose United States participation in the Bosnia operation.

4.   But at the White House, officials focused on another set of statistics released Tuesday, showing that workplace productivity was rising.

5.   But American officials immediately focused their attention on an airport in the city of Lingshui, on Hainan, where the damaged plane was sitting on the tarmac.

6.   But former and current American officials were focusing Sunday on the personal and the positive.

7.   But Henshaw declined to identify the industries that government safety officials might focus on, saying only that the government would concentrate on industries with the worst injury rates.

8.   But if the officials focus on the number of players in any one market, the companies may have a far harder time of it.

9.   But Ms. Fattah said university officials should focus more on improving lighting around campus and on creating more secured parking spaces for students.

10.   City officials instead focused their immediate efforts on seizing control of the museum through what they predicted would be protracted litigation.