Word: portion
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Even so, Bozanich cast the details of abuse as cool, calculated lies. She launched this portion of her argument with a reading from Hitler's Mein Kampf: "The great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victims to a great lie than a small one." Bozanich then recapped the lies Lyle had told in the seven months prior to his arrest -- lies he had to own up to once his trial got under way. He lied to police investigators when he made up the tale of Mafia hit men, even as he had the presence of mind to remove...
...brisk exegesis, like a successful archeological dig, yields a wealth of information about American culture. The announcements trumpet the spawning and proliferation of a new class, the meritocracy, which journalist Nicholas Lemann defines as "a national personnel system that uses higher education to sort and slot a substantial portion of the population...
...fund has also received $28,000 in individual contributions and donations from Cambridge residents who choose to check off a box on their tax returns stipulating that a portion of their income taxes be used to support the scholarships, said city Financial Director James P. Maloney...
Whatever emerges from the health care debates will likely force individuals to pay for a larger portion of the health care they consume. Such a plan makes sense from an economic standpoint, but has a hidden effect: Under the new system, many people will not get the best care possible...
...some essential "awareness-imperatives:" Prevalence: You probably have no conception of how many people around you suffer some kind and degree of mental illness for at least some portion of their lives. Given estimates that at least 20 percent of the U.S. population fall into this category, this suggests that several thousand members of the Harvard community have suffered or will suffer a mental illness at some point in life. Many more of us will have relatives and/or friends directly affected. There are so many degrees and varieties of conditions that it is difficult to say much about the entire...