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• r  in a single-minded manner

• A top adviser to Bush says he had never seen the Vice President focused so single-mindedly on anything over two terms.
• Karl Marx labored single-mindedly for 15 years to produce his monumental Das Kapital, and all the while he was in pain.
• Eight years ago, she cut her father, her two brothers and her sister out of her life as she single-mindedly pursued her tennis ambitions.

News & Articles

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• Settlement spat looms large over Kerry Mideast visit
  Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 07, 2013 Secretary of State John Kerry reaffirmed US opposition to Israeli settlements after Israel accused the Palestinians of creating "artificial crises" during a day of marathon talks with both sides. Kerry, who has single-mindedly fought to put the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations back on track, was seeking to keep them from derailing amid recriminations on both ...
  Nov. 7, 2013 - Space War

Quotes

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• Gary Locke in International Herald Tribune
  My goal is simple: to carry out the president's plan for economic recovery by putting every part of the Department of Commerce single-mindedly to work on saving American jobs and creating family-wage jobs of the future,Locke said. "We must...
• Robert Mugabe in Africasia
  Mugabe said the delay in opening parliament was due "to a praiseworthy search for peace and greater amity for our nation. The new dispensation of collaboration across the political divide should now see us single-mindedly devoting our energies...
• Milton Friedman in The Independent Institute
  At the time,concluded Friedman, "we concentrated single-mindedly on promoting the war effort. We gave next to no consideration to any longer-run consequences. It never occurred to me at the time that I was helping to develop machinery that...