And we can now expect a significant bipartisan effort to devote lots of money and attention to tightening "homeland security".
Professional actors actually devote lots of time and energy to practicing certain facial expressions in an effort to make their performances more realistic.
While Harris and VandeHei say — rightly — that Politico has devoted lots of space and effort to, say, the health care debate, many of its prominent stories on the subject followed a reductive, who's-up-who's-down formula.
They devoted lots of time, capital, efforts, man power and so on to conduct research and development.
Companies that have been caught lapsing, such as Tyco International, devote a lot of effort to telling their customers and employees what they are doing to fix their problems.
In a recent study Joëlle Miffre and Georgios Rallis of the Cass Business School in London found 13 profitable momentum strategies in commodity markets with an average annual return of 9.4% between 1979 and 2004.Modern CTAs like Aspect and Winton (run by David Harding, another founder of AHL) devote a lot of effort to researching new ways of exploiting momentum.
Though even there ObamaCare includes the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act, or CLASS Act (bureaucrats can devote a lot of effort thinking up catchy bill titles; often more consideration, frankly, than they give on the impact of their bills).
108 devotes a lot of effort to this.
Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors, devoted a lot of effort to arguing the pro-Europe case.
Nokia has devoted a lot of effort to raising its profile in North America in the past two years and has recently formed a joint venture with Sanyo of Japan to produce fancy CDMA handsets.
One of its most successful recruits has been Brad Bird, who has presided over two Oscar-winning feature films, "The Incredibles" (in which he also provided a character's voice) and "Ratatouille".The second is that the company devotes a lot of effort to getting people to work together.
