In Tanzania, the government devotes three times more to debt-servicing than to education, on which spending has dropped two-thirds in a decade.
In parceling out the airwaves, the FCC devotes skimpy spectrum to the booming market for 200 million cell phone users in the U.S. yet preserves barely used bandwidth for old UHF channels.
But Li, 78, is so keen on the growth opportunity for pharmaceuticals in China that he devotes some of his valuable time to signing off on Chi-Med's joint ventures.
Marc Buelens, who teaches in the international MBA program at the Vlerick Management School, in Belgium, now devotes a large part of his leadership course to an extended case study of the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Mr. Carpenter, who was appointed curator of Japanese art in July 2011, devotes about a fifth of the permanent exhibition space to ancient artifacts and Buddhist art and uses the remaining galleries to stage six-month-long installations, each illustrating an aspect of Japanese art.
New York Times numbers guy Nate Silver devotes his entire column today to analyzing growth in the size of government (federal, state and local) relative to the economy 40 years ago.
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All of this is a relief from the clangor of an American thriller, but our interest in the movie ebbs when Corbijn devotes many minutes to the fashioning of a perfect rifle.
Instead, he devotes himself to maintaining friendships with big-shots in all his different worlds.
Among the best (and funniest) essays in the book are the ones Mamet devotes to that particularly loathsome species, the producer.
Some American intelligence officials complain that Israel represents a blind spot in U.S. intelligence, which devotes little resources to Israel.
She devotes dozens of pages to Mr Paulson's rise in the hedge-fund industry, but glosses over his poor performance in 2011.
State spending per capita in Texas is among the lowest in the country, and the state already devotes a greater share of its general spending to pre-college education than the national average, so there is little wiggle room.
While Mr Inwood spends several pages describing the Great Fire of 1666, with the help of accounts by contemporaries such as Pepys and Clarendon, Mr Sheppard devotes a single paragraph to describing one of the seminal events in London's history before moving on to the rather less gripping subject of the planning regulations that governed the rebuilding of the city.
Steeped in the parochial thinking of American academic feminism, she devotes too much space to the (to her) mystifying puzzle of her heroines' lack of gender consciousness.
Not to mention the fashion and celebrity press, which historically devotes dozens of pages and airtime to red carpet garb, often in the form of "dos and don'ts" lists.
The pope, born Joseph Ratzinger, will first head to the pope's summer residence in Castel Gandolfo before he likely retires to a monastery and devotes himself to a life of reflection and prayer, Lombardi said.
The most consequential part of President Bush's State of the Union address tonight, at least in the near-term, will be the section he devotes to the need to ensure that the Nation's law enforcement and intelligence communities have the tools they need to protect us.
In fact, the device is so simple to use that the manual devotes more space to the clock functions than the camcorder ones.
Many other companies adopted similar strategies, and the psychologist Robert Cialdini devotes an entire chapter of his classic book Influence to the creative and downright crafty ways in which scarcity has been used to move product.
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She also devotes considerable time to reading unsolicited manuscripts, and says much of what the Hudson Review publishes comes in over the transom.
The show devotes considerable space to the SX-70 but not enough to Polaroid's role as a pioneer in big photography.
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Mamet devotes significant space to miscellaneous subjects, including the craft of directing (less is more), Jews in Hollywood (there are a lot) and the importance of film critics (they aren't).
In the rainy, summer season, when the tourists are gone and the temperature soars, he devotes himself full time to the cattle side of his business.
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