Dr. Davis said the gift had been nurtured over nine years of dinners and discussions with Mr. Icahn, a medical school trustee, and would be heavily devoted to building research capability.
His aides said in interviews that perhaps the most important goal of the entire program is to define the election on the Obama campaign's terms — "change" versus "more of the same" — from here until Election Day, with the second night of the convention being heavily devoted to contrasts between Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee.
However, 2002's Vapor Trails was heavily devoted to speaking about Peart's personal issues, combined with other humanitarian topics such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks ("Peaceable Kingdom").
The decision leaves NBC with one newsmagazine, "Dateline," which is devoted heavily to crime stories.
Today the store has a heavily stocked section devoted to "Electro Clash" and there are no more posters.
Mr. Miller, 43, whose stunning defeat of Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's Republican primary makes him the favorite to win her seat in this heavily Republican state, has devoted much of his life to institutions and isolation.
Even the impassioned defense several weeks ago by Mr. Kholmanskikh, the tank factory worker, was delivered on Mr. Putin's annual call-in show, a heavily stage-managed event devoted mostly to burnishing his image.
Though never having grown to a size that made the service worth sustaining in Google's eyes, its niche user base was devoted and heavily engaged.
Most strikingly, though, a sizable fraction of total political news consumption by Republicans was devoted to heavily conservative-aligned outlets like Fox News and Breitbart, which are very rarely visited by Democrats".
Sanders went on to argue that "pressure has got to be put on media" to cover policy issues like income inequality and poverty more heavily, instead of devoting attention to sensational campaign moments and the state of political horse races.
Heidmann, a meaty, middle-aged man with wild eyebrows and a beard heavily flecked with gray, has devoted his career to learning what viruses might tell us about AIDS and various forms of cancer.
