Word: portions
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...play areas and five classrooms. While it would cost Shanker up to $700 a month to put his boys in other local day-care facilities of comparable quality, he pays the bank only $520 through convenient payroll deductions. Moreover, the arrangement allows him to avoid paying taxes on the portion of his salary that goes to child care. The best part, though, is that Shanker can walk downstairs at lunchtime to visit Elan and Dannel, and is nearby in case of emergency...
...some observers see an emerging pattern: the virus writers tend to be men in their late teens or early 20s who have spent an inordinate portion of their youth bathed in the glow of a computer screen. Scientific American Columnist A.K. Dewdney, who published the first article on computer viruses, describes what he calls a "nerd syndrome" common among students of science and technology. Says Dewdney: "They live in a very protected world, both socially and emotionally. They leave school and carry with them their prankish bent...
Under Dukakis' program, employers would be required to provide a basic insurance package to workers, and to pay a portion, perhaps 80 percent, of the annual premium. The coverage would pay for hospital stays, clinical visits, tests and diagnostic services, prenatal and pediatric care, and mental health care. Dukakis' plan would also provide tax breaks to assist small businesses in establishing insurance plans...
...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
Even so, legislatures are coming under increasing pressure to ban dirty dialing. In April Congress banned the transmission to minors of obscene or indecent material for commercial purposes. Federal courts in New York and California promptly struck down the portion of the law applying to merely indecent matter (messages are deemed obscene if they discuss sexual activity in a clearly offensive manner, while an indecent recording might include nothing more than strong language...