Word: portion
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...Christ's crucifixion and tomb, the church has since 1852 been managed according to an uneasy truce imposed on six warring Christian factions by the Ottoman sultan who ruled Jerusalem at the time. Franciscan Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Egyptian Coptic, Syrian and Ethiopian sects each jealously guard their portion of the holy site, according the sultan's rules. But there is only one entrance to the church, which the Israeli authorities fear isn't enough for safety reasons - especially when an expected 17,000 candle-bearing worshipers pack the church at the Greek Orthodox Easter next April. But an Israeli...
...cloning tool, a.k.a. the rubber stamp. This tool is used on almost every photo printed in any publication. The cloning technique allows designers to sample a portion of a picture and copy it onto another portion, making it easy to remove dust or scratches, blemishes, freckles and other human defects...
...Curse of the Bambino means nothing. Despite the deja vu that accompanied the agony of one more missed opportunity for glory, Red Sox fans might actually have somewhere other than Babe Ruth on which to lay at least a portion of the burden of blame this year. From beginning to end, the 1999 post-season has been a showcase for the fallibility of many of the sport's officials, with umpires reaching a new pinnacle of incompetence during the Sox-Yankees series...
...Musharraf regime will require and will inevitably exercise centralized control, if not for any other reason than to ensure the continued support of its main constituency, the armed forces. To truly devolve power, the regime would deprive itself of its control over the country's economic resources, a substantive portion of which sustain a half-a-million-strong military establishment in one of the poorest and most underdeveloped states in the world...
...significant portion of Boston's Asian Americans, 38 percent, also had less than a 12th-grade education, double the percentage of whites and five percent more than the percentage of blacks with similar levels of education...