Most of us only have a certain amount of time to devote to literature -- how to best employ that time?
A spring bride ordered the gardener of her estate to devote a certain area to cornflowers.
By Eugene Kinkead and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, August 1 , 1953P. 14 A spring bride ordered the gardener of her estate to devote a certain area to cornflowers.
Meanwhile, Amazon has many millions of books, and needs to make a profit, so it'll only be able to devote a certain, proportional amount of time to helping writers too.
Publishers have lots of books, need to make a profit, and are battling declining reader attention spans, so they are only able to devote a certain amount of time to helping writers market their books anyway.
State requirements say students have to devote a certain number of minutes to each subject, but Reach could not account for students' time, and neither could state officials who visited the school.
But generic drugmakers and consumer groups say this will dent competition and prop up prices.A more radical proposal is for governments to sign on to an international treaty to devote a certain proportion of their GDP to R&D for drugs and vaccines, particularly for neglected diseases.
Every human endeavour that requires more than one person's effort has to devote a certain amount of resources to the problem of coordination: the internet has greatly simplified this problem (think again of the hours activists used to spend simply addressing postcards with information about an upcoming demonstration).
In the event the primary care physician had to be contacted to correct inconsistencies, (s)he would have to devote a certain time to review the medication list and perhaps contact the discharging physician at the hospital clinic.
Requiring them to devote up to a certain percentage of their income to purchasing basic coverage would be imposing a significant, though not ruinous, financial burden -- but they themselves would be the primary beneficiaries.
