Contrary to the sherry-tippling impression left behind from her days filming the pioneering television cooking series The French Chef, Child devoted a serious chapter on wine in the now-legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
A president who really cared about the heartland would devote a little serious thought to its problems, rather than just treat it as a backdrop for his re-election campaign.
At that point, properties sold quickly, and the couple didn't have time to devote to a serious apartment hunt.
Last night, after President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address, your cable teevee people stepped up to the microphone and offered hours of coverage devoted to a serious discussion of the policy proposals hinted at in the speech, and their potential impact on ordinary Americans long lamentation about how bored they were, watching the speech.
In good ones they can be a way of ensuring that managers devote serious strategic thinking to serious possible risks.
As for Bill Joy, Dr Smalley is equally dismissive: "I say get up and turn on the lights, Bill, because this nanobot future is just a silly nightmare".Dr Smalley had hoped that, when Scientific American devoted a special issue to the serious side of nanotechnology, it would drive a stake through the heart of the grey-goo, self-replicating nanobot idea.
"If panic on social media gets world health authorities to pay attention and devote serious resources to a problem, it's probably a good thing," he said.
What is less obvious, however, is the resources I can draw upon when operating as my "unplugged" self: a state we have not had to devote much serious thought to during human history so far but that, if we don't actively set out to understand today, we may soon find in vanishingly short supply.
It is hard for American companies to devote serious resources to a region that is still in its infancy and unproven, unlike the cash cows in the West.
It was only days ago that things were so slow that we were forced to devote our serious thinking time to the reports from South America that overgrown white ferrets are being sold to people as toy poodles.
