1.   Another inquiry focuses on Swiss companies that may be tied to a Russian financier, Boris Berezovsky.

2.   Apart from the alleged fraud by Leeson in Singapore, the inquiries are focusing on two areas.

3.   At first, the inquiries focused on possible links to the drug trade.

4.   But he indicated that the inquiry had focused on hiring and promotion, among other topics.

5.   But he noted that officials had not learned earlier of the two men in Pakistani custody because the inquiry had focused on people associated with al-Qaida.

6.   But White said last weekend that her inquiry was focusing on a single employee.

7.   DeFazio, the assistant prosecutor, said the inquiry was focusing on whether Chiusolo struck Tarquino on the head and, if so, with what.

8.   For more than a year a Gaming Commission inquiry focused on events surrounding the guilty plea in St. Louis federal court of former Station lawyer Michael Lazaroff.

9.   He was never charged with espionage, and officials later acknowledged that their inquiry had prematurely focused on Lee.

10.   Instead, Cox said, the inquiry focused on key pieces of evidence believed to be sitting inside state storage rooms in Austin and Waco.