Word: portion
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...money can't hurt either. Shemmer earns $45,000 a year plus $20,000 to $25,000 in annual bonuses, which are based on evaluations from higher-ups. (The median income of American households was $38,885 last year, by the way.) At that salary, Shemmer can afford his portion of the $2,400-a-month apartment he shares with a college friend. Still, everything's relative. Although Shemmer invests his annual bonus, he spends the rest. "I break even every month," he confesses. His three main expenses: rent, alcohol and cabs. Shemmer spends most Friday and Saturday nights partying...
...eighth grade test results, many students will not be able to raise their scores enough over the next three years even to reach the "needs improvement" level. Last year, 40 percent of students scored in the "failing" category on the math section, while 13 percent failed the English portion. If these same students took the test tomorrow, they would not receive their diplomas...
...Levy of Vancouver still remembers the day in the mid-1980s when her heart broke. She was sitting across the dining-room table from Dorothy Coppens, her vibrant 85-year-old mother, who had just been found to be suffering from macular degeneration, an incurable deterioration of the central portion of the retina that is the leading cause of blindness in people 60 and older. "Your face is just a brown smear," Coppens told her daughter. "I guess I'll never see your face again...
Competition may provide an alternative. To help slow the growing appeal of viaticals, more insurance companies are offering so-called accelerated death benefits, which, like viaticals, award a certain portion of the policies' face value to terminally ill patients before they die. That way, people can take it with them, and there's little chance that investors will be taken...
...talented group of individuals collectively forms a team in perfect keeping with Coach Weiss' tradition of excellence. The Crimson will spend the first half of the season competing in tournaments all over the country, facing some of the nation's finest teams. Beginning in late January, the dual meet portion of the season will begin...