Word: portion
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...additional borrowed $85,000, on building permits, blueprints, and the like, but could not get a city-sponsored loan because, he believes, of the scale of his project. He trudged to more than a dozen banks, which rejected his application because his investment did not represent a sufficient portion of the plan...
Rimm, who received his doctorate in 1991 from the SPH, said he completed his thesis based on material from an earlier portion of this study...
...becoming clear, however, that there's more to Forbes' strength than the power of one idea. The flat tax may have put Forbes' name on the table, but it accounts for only a decreasing portion of his support: the supply siders, the IRS haters, the fiscal conservatives. Forbes himself cannily used the proposal to forge a much stronger alloy out of the angry, disaffected core of Republicans and independents, of voters who hate politics, hate politicians, hate the media and hate political media most of all. In essence he has taken up the banner of the Perot rebellion, but with...
Lituma knows--indeed, everyone in the Andes seems to know--that the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, is gaining control in the region. To underscore this point, Vargas Llosa inserts flashes of Sendero violence throughout the early portion of his narrative: the stoning to death of two young French tourists and a prominent ecologist visiting from Lima; the slaughter of a herd of vicunas being raised as a cash crop for the local economy; the invasion of a village in which residents are persuaded to massacre one another...
...public housing for intact families, and $1 million grants for school districts to operate same-gender schools. The centerpiece of Coats' proposal is a $500-per-person tax credit for donations to charitable organizations that fight poverty. "A nation that has lost its compassion has lost a portion of its soul," Coats has said. "A presidential candidate who can speak on these issues in a compelling, morally serious way will have a powerful tool in the 1996 election...