• Executive education associate dean at the Paris-based HEC, Dr. Bertrand Moingeon, says his school's alumni have a dedicated team of staff devoted to them to provide ongoing career advice as well as a regular magazine which updates them on the achievements of other members.

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  • Djinn are mentioned 37 times in the Koran, and have a sura (chapter) devoted to them.

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  • Yet the resources devoted to them are much scantier than those offered in psychiatric hospitals.

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  • There's a "Start-up Village" area, an "American Idol"-styled start-up competition called "Accelerator, " and lots of panels, parties and expo floor space devoted to them.

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  • We know that people do not spend equal amounts on the above items, and we know their share of income devoted to them has changed over the decades.

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  • On November 16th several hundred ordinary, middle-aged Australians, with pain in their faces and tears in their eyes, packed the hall to witness a ceremony devoted to them.

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  • Baron agreed to handle all the marketing--not the company's forte--and by 2005 he had built a sales and marketing staff of 18, 10 of them devoted to drumming up mobile customers.

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  • With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and manhunts in places like Yemen, the military applications, and the corporations devoted to serving them (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman), came to dominate the skyscape.

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  • These outcomes are virtually certain to occur if sufficient funds and resources are devoted to achieving them.

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  • Of course, they've been helped by the massive growth of Facebook, where the games are so popular they've spawned "fan" pages devoted to complaining about having to watch friends play them.

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  • Stubby, as the dog became known, comforted the wounded and was devoted to his comrades, warning them at one point of a gas attack and giving them time to don their gas masks.

    WSJ: Letting Slip the Real Dogs of War

  • Friends and family described them as "devoted" to Stephen and said they "would have done anything for him".

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  • As the team reports in a forthcoming issue of Langmuir, a journal devoted to the study of colloids, the new technique allows them to build composite materials with custom-designed features as tiny as the diameter of a human hair.

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  • Maybelline invited customers to create polls about fashion or music and share them with friends on a Web site devoted to the Pure products.

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  • However, Nance and others like her have become devoted to the practice of flushing water through their nasal passages to help them breathe easier.

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  • "The picture that emerges... is that these are doting parents who are devoted to the children and provide them with a very high level of care, " he said.

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  • "Our main test installation is at a school in Kent (southeast England) -- where 1, 100 kids have devoted their lives to stamping all over them for the last eight months, " said Kemball-Cook.

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  • Next American City is a magazine devoted to highlighting innovations that connect cities and the people that are working to improve them.

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  • The IMF devoted part of its global financial-stability report to them.

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  • They devoted comparatively little time or effort to inoculating patients, advising them to stop smoking, providing breast-cancer screening and so forth.

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  • They have devoted their lives and sacrificed the lives of the people under them to protect the property and freedom of those citizens and feel compelled to maintain the military machine that they drive.

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  • Perhaps because an election is a long way off the DUP has devoted the broadcast, not to a direct appeal to vote for them, but to a general appeal on behalf of charities which support members of the armed services.

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  • Among them: Yin, Yang and You, an Australian production devoted to Oriental exercise routines.

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  • We essentially worked seven days a week, but most of these people either, one, they put their previous life aside and devoted 100 percent to this investigation, or, two, some of them began leading two lives and keeping two jobs, and they did the investigation in the daytime, and they did their other duties at night.

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  • In America, IKEA had devoted fans among the college and young professional set, but it struggled to retain them in their later lives.

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  • Soon they could well be joined by lots of other sites devoted to enthusiasts that currently do not sell books but which might offer them as one of a range of products for people interested in science fiction, gardening or whatever.

    ECONOMIST: On-line retailing

  • Twice divorced, Alwaleed is a devoted father to his son Khalid, 19, and daughter Reem, 15, often taking them along on his global jaunts.

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  • Even if none of them makes it into the finals (the fix seems to be in against this devoted breed, one of the few to have originated in the U.S., which has never won Best In Show), my mother could still revel in wall-to-wall Boston Terriers in the first round.

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  • Having them replicate my efforts took longer than expected, but that speaks to the great things one devoted person can accomplish.

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  • Fortunately, dear readers, my pajamas have unlimited production resources, so if you have any devoted Times-reading friends who are starving for health-policy coverage, you know where to send them.

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