Word: portion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reasons that GDP did so poorly is that capital expenditures fell at an annual rate of 38%. A fair portion of that drop was due to slow activity in the housing market. Recent figures on home sales should cause any capable analyst to believe that housing will not be a source of any hope for a recovery...
...Highlights: • The Dirty: Not surprisingly, California - a state beset by air pollution and struggling to amend its fuel-efficiency standards in order to stave off the effects of global warming - contained a good portion of the most-polluted counties and cities in America. Other highly polluted areas, such as the tri-state New York-Connecticut-New Jersey region and the Chicago area, also made it into the top 25 most air-polluted places. The charts - categorized by short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and year-round ozone pollution - break down how many people afflicted by illnesses such...
...states have confirmed cases of swine flu, including a death in Texas, but all 50 have already requested their portion of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) of antiviral medications, according to the CDC. (The SNS, maintained jointly by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's emergency medicine chest, containing critical drugs and medical equipment to be used in a public-health emergency.) Although the stockpiled antiviral drugs can treat existing cases of flu, a vaccine is the only way to protect people who are uninfected and halt further spread...
...what is frustrating about the situation is that The Times’s plans for The Globe amount to the same tired tactics that have been tried time and again—pay reductions and layoffs for Globe staff. While this might staunch a small portion of the blood—the target is to reduce the losses to $65 million—it is hardly a long-term solution. After all, given The Times’s own deteriorating finances, a $65 million loss doesn’t seem very sustainable over the long haul either...
...says. “But it does fluctuate from time to time.”McCarthy adds that he thinks public service can also be done from a private sector platform. But some students disagree.“We had a skepticism that some huge portion of people going into private sector would be working on public problems,” Ginsburg says. “And even if they were working on it, it wasn’t their mission to serve the public sector.”But administrators say their response to the issue of public sector...