Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"While I appreciate the desire of individual departments and units to have 'first call' on classrooms and teaching rooms that are nearby, I remain reluctant to devote new resources to building more classrooms until I am convinced that we are making the best use of those that we have," he...
But it is the brilliantly patterned minutiae of daily life, the rewards of Nattel's research, that anchor the novel's loftier meanings. At muddy street level, Blaszka is stuck in poverty and provincial darkness. Typhus, cholera and rampaging Cossacks periodically cut down the defenseless population. Czarist laws keep Blaszka...
But American parents should worry less about the precise number of minutes their students devote to homework and more about the uneven and poorly conceived way in which it is assigned. "What defines the homework problem in the U.S. today is variation," Cooper says. Less than one-third of U.S...
Someday, "Oaksbranch will require full-time commitment, and he would love to devote himself to its growth and success," Charles says. "There are more deals on the horizon, and even opportunities to diversify."
Dole brings something to the party's civil war that her rivals do not. A generation of Republican candidates have courted religious activists with position papers; Liddy courts them with piety. She tries to devote 30 minutes to Bible study every day and can move the faithful with her Scripture...