Word: portions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stocker, the couple who run the increasingly busy hospital out of their garden in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, have launched a $1.8 million expansion drive, funded in part by a popular adopt-a-hedgehog program. A portion of the money will be used for rooms to keep the patients separated. In a triumph of instinct over infirmity, recuperating male hedgehogs tend to treat the wards like honeymoon suites...
...Saturday morning, election workers began thesecond portion of the ballot-countingprocess--repeatedly retiring the candidate withthe fewest votes, then redistributing each of thatperson's ballots to candidates still in therunning--again following each voter's order ofpreference...
With Harvard's five leading scorers of last year gone, Young will be called upon to shoulder a major portion of the scoring burden this year...
...former winner of the Levenson Award for teaching said that he plans to reduce the portion of time he spends teaching to concentrate on research...
WELL, THE long and short of it is that ultimately I was unable to help the Royal Couple with their marital problems, and by extension, failed to obtain ancestral rights to any portion of the Queen's lands. But my trip was not a complete failure. I was able to buy a watch with a picture of Big Ben on it and one of those furry hats English guards wear. And, more than that, I think I learned a valuable lesson...