Word: devotee
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Wasserstein and Perella say they left First Boston after a dispute about strategy. The two, who served as co-heads of First Boston's investment-banking operations, failed to persuade their bosses to increase the firm's financial commitment to mergers and acquisitions. The two dissidents believed the statistics were...
Simply put, Kennedy's thesis is this: As nations gain in military power, they must devote an increasing share of their resources to maintain that power. If this share becomes too large, the country's economy will suffer, leading to a decline in national strength and ultimately international influence. A...
Jack Hoy, president of the New England Board of Higher Education, described Dukakis' record as "remarkable." He said that before 1978, the state had little revenue to devote to public institutions, and that Wood's letter was drawn from his experiences before 1978.
Wright disdains the idea of leaving determinations critical to American foreign policy to "someone in the State Department" -- say, the Secretary of State. The Speaker, who has of late been playing the plenipotentiary, perhaps fancies himself better suited to the role. But it is truly odd to prefer leaving such...
With the written word proven a failure, primitive people were now forced to develop the power of speech in order to communicate to each other when they needed something like a haircut or a dog. Yet as we progressed evolutionarily, human communication needs also expanded--going from "I need a...