Word: portion
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...doubles portion of the competition--played in a pro-set format--was a work of precision and power. Wang and She teamed up to dominate their opponents 8-4, firing shots between the Eagles players, as well as at unbelievable angles. Appropriately, the match was ended by Wang sending a strong forehand up the middle...
Having dispatched of UCI, the Crimson traveled to take on No. 9 Pepperdine. After the nail-biting doubles portion left Harvard emotionally exhausted, starting at a 1-0 deficit, the team was unable to recover against the deep line-up of Pepperdine players...
...that": "Looking grim and even more somber than usual, [Sorensen] read a vigorous 10-page rebuttal of what he called 'scurrilous and personal attacks.' When he had finished, he picked up another piece of paper and began reading from it. 'It is now clear,' he said, 'that a substantial portion of the U.S. Senate and the intelligence community is not yet ready to accept as director of Central Intelligence an outsider who believes as I believe.' As the 15 members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence visibly stiffened, Sorensen went on to announce that he was withdrawing his nomination...
...point where trying to follow the tuition trail becomes about as easy as tracking a particular cup of water through a faucet. It is almost impossible to say exactly what tuition pays for and what it doesn't, other than to say that it constitutes the major portion of the university's general fund and that anything paid for from the general fund is thus paid for in part by tuition...
Because of competition, however, tuition reimbursement has become as much a necessity as tenure and summers off. Such programs will become costlier now that the Federal Government has decided to stop picking up the tab for the portion once classified as indirect costs. The money will have to come from somewhere--namely Penn's various sources of general revenue, including tuition...