Word: portion
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...into China comes through here. Fashion houses, banks and law firms gravitate first to Shanghai, not Beijing. Still, the last couple of years have not been kind to the city. A cancerous corruption scandal, uncovered by the overlords in Beijing, claimed Shanghai's Communist Party boss and a substantial portion of the city's ruling elite. Shanghai's benchmark stock index has plunged to its lowest point since late 2006, and even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real-estate slide has affected tenancy, with just 45% of the tower currently occupied. The hosting...
...interactions with both these war criminals and victims made me realize that the press can only convey a portion of what these events really mean; they can’t capture all that lies behind the scenes. The media cannot escape a measure of abstraction however they approach these atrocities on the page or screen, as it isn’t until we come face-to-face with the people involved in the trials and statistics that we begin to comprehend the sheer scale of what has happened...
...Core requirements and equally frustrated freshmen who are forced to choose between a meager selection of Gen Ed courses and the defunct Core. No student at any point in his or her academic career is immune to this gross deficiency as the College struggles to reconcile the general requirements portion of its curriculum.Instead of a robust selection of exciting new Gen Ed courses for freshmen and a diverse and solid group of Cores for continuing upperclassmen, we are faced with a meager smattering of both. There are either one or zero offerings available in each of the Gen Ed categories...
...Indeed, though Harvard upped its payout this year to $1.6 billion, its highest total ever, the payout rate as a portion of the endowment was just 4.6 percent...
...When Ike first reached downtown Houston, we took our positions in front of the television, where we'd spent a good portion of Friday night watching Ike destroy Galveston. The blue tarps we hung over the windows appeared to be breathing, moving back and forth. We'd pull back the tarps and curtains and peek out at the storm. The streetlights were still on and we could see the trees blowing crazily. We felt relatively safe, until we heard the breaking glass...