Word: portions
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...portion of the people to be interviewed was selected in a totally random fashion -- any Boston voter having as much chance of being chosen as any other. The remainder was chosen randomly from certain designated neighborhoods, in order to over-represent minority groups. If this were not done, Wilson said, minorities would be represented in numbers too small to be meaningful...
...conscious of posterity as any other writer who ever anticipated its judgment. He saved the thousands of letters that came his way and expected his correspondents to do the same (they did). Before his death at 74 in 1910, he commissioned an official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. A large portion of Twain's estate-the fragments, stories, notes and autobiography unpublished during his lifetime-has since been paid into print by his literary executors. Yet none of it takes the full measure of the man himself...
...pafrticular speciality groups within the hospitals. It is a system of education which has grown like Topsy, and interns and residents are more often conveted because of the service they provide than because the professional staff of a hospital has a deep concern for education. The hospital portion of medical education is enormously variable in quality. At its best it can provide a kind of experience more compatible with the concept of a University than the medical school experience. At its worst it is little better than a period of indentured service...
Pakistan reports a comparable success in reducing smallpox, especially in its detached eastern portion, even though vaccinations have reached only about 30% of the population. Yet it was from Pakistan that five jet-borne immigrants started Britain's 1962 epidemic of the more virulent and deadly form of the disease, variola major, that claimed 62 victims and caused 24 deaths. Suddenly, Britain, which had abolished compulsory vaccination in 1948, had to scrap its small annual vaccination budget of $650,000 and stage a $3,800,000 crash campaign. Since then, there have been half a dozen outbreaks in Europe...
Specifically, the report proposed the allocation of a greater portion of the resources of the School to doctoral...