"Relative is what matters," Shai Davidai, a psychologist at the New School whose research is devoted to social inequality, told me recently.
Thousands of startups are devoted to social interaction, and fewer than twenty to fission and fusion, but, Altman said, "hard things are actually easier than easy things.
Fran, past president of Manhattan Women's Philanthropy and a leader on several commissions, is devoted to social and humanitarian causes that strengthen the New York Jewish community.
They were very different — Day was devoted to social service, Percy to philosophy, O'Connor to literature, Merton to the inner journey — and Elie doesn't love them all equally.
Wealthy people already pass on a lot of advantages to their children; they can afford better education, and a better environment at home (more books, quiet places to study etc).History, as well as fiction, suggests that being born to inherited wealth is not normally a spur to greater effort; instead, life is devoted to social display or indolence.
As we follow Frances during the year and a half that takes her from health to serious illness, we see that her radio days were one part of a life that was devoted to social activism, a career that has left her struggling to pay a cheap rent in San Francisco.
Mr. McCain, betting that even Republican primary voters no longer favor tax cutting during prosperous times, has called for a tax cut of just under $240 billion to allow billions of dollars of the federal surplus to be devoted to Social Security, Medicare and reducing the national debt.
A large section of the Promo Pop is devoted to social media content.
Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed his nation's oil wealth would be devoted to social programs.
