All officers in Nadeau's department are required to perform at least 10 hours of community policing activities every year, though he said most devote closer to 40 hours to the work.
The students worked at their labs during summer vacation as well as after school, and they estimate that they have devoted close to 2,000 hours each to their projects.
Given Peirce's tychism and his view that statistical information is often the best information we can have about phenomena, it should not be surprising that Peirce devoted close attention to the analysis of situations in which perfect exactness and perfect certitude were unattainable.
The makers of American political satires always claim to have devoted close personal study to the workings of Congress and the White House before they set pen to paper, but it's the Brits who really base their work on real life.
The focus on setting up a colony on Mars, instead of getting serious about climate change on Earth, is the functional equivalent of devoting close to a trillion dollars a year to the U.S. military instead of using that money to fix all that is broken at home.
Since Mr. Milk's political career embodies the rise of the homosexual community's political power in San Francisco, and since the results of Mr. White's brief trial were evidence of a backlash, the film would have benefited from devoting closer attention to the trial itself.
While local news has long been an A.P. specialty, the wire service could not devote anything close to the 45 reporters that Cnet News.com has covering technology and the Internet.
Frustrated and worried that their candidate has failed to capitalize on what they see as his best selling point, prominent Democrats say Vice President Al Gore needs to devote the closing week of the campaign to delivering an urgent pitch about his role in the administration's economic successes.
Peggy was cheek-bitingly frustrating to watch: Through her complete refusal to admit that she'd fucked up, she inched herself and her bumbling but devoted husband closer and closer to danger.
The first two weeks are devoted to learning to pay close attention to body sensations.
