Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On returning to Mexico, he helped run the family estate and did not devote himself solely to architecture until 1936, when he was 34. He soon found that clients irritated him with their whims. "I am such that I must work without a patrón," he explained. He began designing...
The FDO selects 25 proctors from approximately 115 applicants each year. Despite efforts at publicity, however, the applicant pool has not grown in the last few years. Ellen Porter, former senior adviser and now a proctor, surmises that shrinking Graduate School of Arts and Sciences enrollment, coupled with an increasing...
Crimson: You devote much of the beginning of your book to describing the sense of promise in the nation in 1976. Today, it seems to me, there's much more an atmosphere of fear. Do you think the fear of governmental collapse--I don't even mean through war, but...
Remarkably, the P.L.O. has also managed to devote time and resources to a wide range of services and businesses. It runs hospitals and clinics, dispenses social security benefits, sponsors trade unions and even associations for writers, poets and painters. It maintains 35 small factories that produce clothing, blankets, furniture and...
Senior Writer George Church's first foray into the world of economic journalism was a 1954 story for the Wall Street Journal about a revolutionary trend in packaging orange juice: cardboard containers, like those used for milk. The idea caught on and so, quite clearly, did Church. He rose...