It is so persuaded of that fact that two years ago, instead of promoting its antismoking campaign or publicizing the need for cancer screening, it devoted its entire advertising budget to the problem of inadequate health insurance coverage.
The Academy is supposedly a trade group, and yet it devoted its opening number to degrading a good part of its membership.
In 1964, recently estranged from its Soviet patron, it devoted a larger share of its GDP (1.7%) to R&D than it ever has since.
Early on, a Sonic Youth album washed up into its territory, and it devoted itself to frenzied guitar tremolos.
My school did its part, too: it devoted half a day's class time to making sure every junior took the Asvab.
While Honda has added some convenience features, it devoted much of its attention to improved crash safety.
Indeed, it devoted 5% of its budget to considering the social, ethical and legal aspects of acquiring and understanding the human genome sequence [ 64].
Katie Hogan, a spokesman, describes the many man-hours it devoted to ensuring that its websites always fit perfectly onto surfers' screens, no matter what device they are using.
Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Democrat from Westchester County who has been critical of the project, said it devoted too much of its resources to less populated areas of the state.
But it devoted the final 2 1/2 of its 21 pages to criticism from public meetings.
Since 1990, however, the fund has relied so heavily on borrowing that this year it devoted nearly two-thirds of its $745 million operating budget to debt service.
