Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For the past six months or so, he has appeared increasingly edgy, with a fleeting attention span. He started skipping work, and chums feared that he would derail from the fast track. In July he quit his D.A. post to devote all his time to studying for his third try...
Typically, schools in the program would have Jackson, other prominent blacks or the principal lead an inspirational rally early in each school year. Students would be asked to sign pledges that they would devote at least two hours to their homework each night. Parents would agree personally to pick up...
Thomas Hicks has abandoned his commercial photography business in Portland, Ore., to devote himself to trading them. Webb Williams, Exxon Corp.'s trust fund manager, spends an increasing portion of his time investing in them for his company. So does Charles Stevenson, who operates his own New York-based...
Newer and lesser-known names are rising to prominence. One is Fred Iklé, 58, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a scholarly, low-voiced, pinstripe hawk who favors putting maximum pressure on the Sandinista regime. He has the ear of Weinberger, who according to Pentagon colleagues has been too preoccupied...
Biologist Michael Ghiselin: $212,000 in 1981. A specialist in evolutionary biology and author of the acclaimed The Triumph of the Darwinian Method (1969), Ghiselin had resigned from the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley to devote more time to writing and research even before receiving his award...