It will be difficult for me to fulfill that commitment as I already devote significant time to my philanthropic ventures and the many business within the Virgin Group.
It has already devoted evenings to Leonard Bernstein's vital music for "West Side Story" and William Walton's eclectic score for the Olivier version of "Henry V," and still to come is a performance of Philip Glass's stunning music for Godfrey Reggio's "Koyaanisqatsi".
But he insists that the NUS already devotes most of its resources to core issues and is currently undergoing reviews into its democratic procedures (for instance, considering longstanding demands for one-member-one-vote) and institutional racism, including antisemitism.
The state already devotes $10.1 billion, or nearly half its budget, to one form of property tax relief or another.
Saudi Arabia already devotes about a tenth of its G.D.P. to defense, one of the highest rates in the world.
And China already devotes a bigger share of its GDP to research and development than do other countries with similar income levels.
State spending per capita in Texas is among the lowest in the country, and the state already devotes a greater share of its general spending to pre-college education than the national average, so there is little wiggle room.
As a realtime search engine, OneRiot already devotes a large percentage of its team to spam prevention, OneRiot general manager Tobias Peggs says.
Washington already devotes a larger share of its military outlays (26percentto to equipment than any European nation except Poland, which dramatically increased its share last year over 2014, and Luxembourg, which doesn't spend much overall.
One transportation expert worries that the city already devotes too many resources to cars.
