Word: portion
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...unclear, though, whether Fine's special access will translate into financial help. Geithner has said he will spend a certain portion of the remaining $350 billion in the Treasury program formerly known as TARP investing more money in the nation's banks. But he hasn't said whether he intends to use the money to shore up the larger troubled banks or as grants to some smaller banks that don't necessarily need the funds but could use the additional money to make more loans. The government is reportedly in talks with Citigroup to take ownership of as much...
...Since it is almost certain that a large portion of the print news industry will be damaged by the recession and the internet, why is it being bypassed as a bailout candidate? The easy answer is that news will be available on the internet. But, since readers are less likely to be loyal to brands when reading news online than they are with print, that answer does not address the problem. Online newspapers face more competition on the internet than they do as physical products...
...very good at setting traps for the vaccines. The immune system is calibrated to crank out antibodies in response to the proteins it sees in the greatest quantities. Over the ages, the flu virus has thus evolved a shape like a bobble-head doll, and it covers the head portion with proteins it can easily change or do without. The vaccine targets these ever changing spots, and by the time the next season comes around, the change has been so great that the vaccine is useless. (Read "How Long Does Flu Immunity Last...
...military activity among the tourist spots. A stylish female skier on a snowy slope is accompanied by captions describing the 1940 Tokyo Olympic Games that never came to fruition. Though the exhibition struggles at times to maintain a strong narrative, it successfully casts light on an often overlooked, idealistic portion of an otherwise destructive era—romantic images that clearly influenced modern Japanese Harajuku style...
...next two years, is to convince Americans and the world that he's laying the foundation for long-term budget control through entitlement reform and, in particular, curbing the cost of health care. Total U.S. health-care spending in 2007 rose to $2.2 trillion, and the public portion is growing fast. "Medicare and Medicaid on their current trajectory cannot be sustained," Obama told a group of columnists aboard Air Force One. "And the only way I think we're going to fix it is if we see those two problems in the broader context of bending the curve down...