Word: portion
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...Ticket scalping within the Harvard community is unfair to our peers. Granted, students could have collected their tickets earlier. But the penalty for procrastination should not be hyper-inflated prices. It is no secret that a large portion of the student body is able and willing to pay ludicrous prices to attend events like the Game, formals, and Commencement, but what of the students on significant financial aid? Though they would gain equal amount of pleasure from attending the Game, they face tradeoffs. When it comes to choosing between a football game and next semester’s textbooks, there...
...From day one, the freshmen have come in and been a really important part of our team,” Baise said. “They’re a big part of our offense and defense and they’re handling a big portion of our passing, which is hard, especially for freshman. They played with a lot of maturity and blocked extremely well...
Some of the companies that need to let people go have lost such a large portion of their sales that they have virtually no choice but to cut staff. That certainly holds true for GM (GM) and United Airlines (UAUA...
...sneaking cigarettes. Ben's smoking should be the least of Janine's worries, given his flirtation with Anna (Scarlett Johansson), the world's most jiggly yoga instructor. The smarmy Ben and the self-involved Anna utterly deserve each other. What does the wan Janine deserve? For starters, a large portion of Baltimore's finest crab cakes; this formerly lush beauty appears to have been living exclusively on wallpaper paste during the lengthy renovation...
...resulted in Chamberlain’s infamous promise to his countrymen of “peace for our time.”Ekman is most compelling when he looks to his own research and experiments, and to ongoing work in the field. But this makes up only a small portion of the book. The chapter on polygraphs, their use by federal agencies and their place in the American legal system is particularly comprehensive, but the underlying conclusion that polygraphs are generally more reliable in the detection of lies than behavioral clues undermines the whole first half of the book...