Today, City Opera, to which I devoted some of the best years of my conducting career, is fighting to survive.
Amy Bonitanibus, a spokeswoman for Fannie Mae, said the company would introduce a program before the summer offering incentives to borrowers who take out conventional loans, and devote some of the funds to energy improvements.
Some orchestras devote some of the time to reading sessions, playing through selected new scores; New York City Opera's annual spring opera workshop, which presents excerpts from never-performed operas, is a notable local example.
The case of John Galliano, who devoted some of the best years of his fashion life to Christian Dior (while his own LVMH-backed brand was treated more as a "danseuse," or plaything), started off a round of soul-searching in the high fashion universe.
I'd be happier if the Met and Fleet St's finest devoted some of the time freed up by the end of the Conway & Family caper to telling us more about these people: how some of them make their money and bonuses, how we rescue them from folly and greed, how their expenses are set against tax, if they pay tax here.
The startup also intends to devote some of the funding to "personalization, and tailoring the experience to individual user's shopping needs in a meaningful way," according to Vaughn.
He devoted some of the land to farming, but also donated some lots to Johnson County for the erection of the county seat, in Cleburne.
Rising demand for coffee and rubber brought the Brazilian government a large increase in revenue, and they voted to devote some of the proceeds to address this naval imbalance.
I was prepared to speak about our collective identity this evening, but ever since I heard of the horrors perpetrated in Paris on Friday night, I knew that I would have to devote some of the time allotted to me to a different theme.
"As we lend and invest hundreds of billions of dollars to help institutions suffering leveraged losses from defaulting mortgages, we must also devote some of that money to fixing the front-end problem: too many unaffordable home loans".
