From that time on, Brown was devoted to fund-raising and recruiting for his Southern invasion plan, which soon centered on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Geldof has no music career to rekindle, and his life for the last 20 years has been almost entirely devoted to fund-raising.
Vice President Al Gore concluded a tightly controlled week devoted to fund-raising and education policy by telling an enthusiastic crowd of students at Howard University today that improving schools and access to college must become a major federal priority in coming years.
The fund, which is made up of Accel's existing capital, will be devoted to funding innovation across entire "big data stack" from infrastructure (storage, security, management, etc).
He founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to funding research into space manufacturing and colonization.
Some of the very companies whose employees cut checks for Obama in 2008 now seem fully devoted to funding his competitor in 2012.
In recent years, as Congress has poured trillions of dollars into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and into an escalating Pentagon budget, well over half of U.S. federal discretionary spending has been devoted to funding the U.S. military.
More interested in policy than politics, it's an open question whether the 61-year-old Mr. Daniels would be willing to put in the thousands of hours a nominee is required to devote to fund-raising and campaigning in small hamlets.
Turning to sector funds, the energy-services fund controls 16% of all assets devoted to sector funds, as does the Sector Rotation Fund, a strategic fund containing components from nine different sectors.
In the next ten years, according to a recent study quoted in a research note from JPMorgan, the proportion of mutual-fund assets devoted to alternative funds will quintuple.
