Word: devotee
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April-Agro's enterprising president, Morris Demel, 50, a Polish-born Jew who grew up in Cuba and fled to Puerto Rico after Castro's takeover, planned to grow produce on arid southern coast farmland once used for sugar cane. Importing five Israeli agronomists and applying drip-irrigation methods developed...
Why devote years of effort to the Hasidim? Harris contends that they once constituted three-fourths of East European Jews and consequently a majority of U.S. Jews probably have Hasidic forebears. "I felt like putting them back in the world in some manner," says Harris, adding that they "represent some...
When the World Bank refused in 1973 to contribute to the $2.5 billion project because it deemed the budget unrealistic, Bongo resolved to go it alone. This year Gabon will devote nearly half its investment budget of $722 million, drawn mainly from oil revenues, to the Transgabonais. "Now we can...
Yet as the pictures testify, this apparently prosaic man harbored a true poetic vision. A passionate student of the piano, Adams reluctantly concluded in his late 20s that his hands were too small for a concert career. After an encounter with the photographer Paul Strand, he decided to devote himself...
Instead of publishing Ambassador Netanyahu's views, you should devote your columns to explaining how much Israel has contributed to so-called terrorism. The current level of violence is only the tip of the iceberg. Denying the Palestinian issue is leading to global disaster. Farooque Rizwy Brooklyn Park, Minn.