1.   His immediate focus is on eliminating high-level corruption and reducing violent crime.

2.   But Ms. Gresser said Friday the immediate focus should be finding someone who can manage the bureaucracy, not dismantle it.

3.   Energy Biosystems also has agreements with Koch Refining Co. for gasoline refining and with Texaco Inc. for treatment of crude oil, although its immediate focus is diesel fuel.

4.   Her immediate focus, though, is on her players, on igniting them before their next game, just as she did last week.

5.   It would ultimately end up in Rome, but the hijacker would let the passengers off in Denver, and so that was the immediate focus of the story.

6.   Kotite will demand an immediate focus on intensity.

7.   McDanold said the national grid would be a longer-term project, while the West Australia pipeline would be the immediate focus for the company.

8.   Our immediate focus is on these two countries.

9.   Runde said the immediate focus of the three partners will be in Europe.

10.   Still, traders said the immediate focus for the bond market is the change in the lead bond futures contract to December from September.