Word: portions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part, Le immigrated empty-handed from Vietnam in 1991 and yet managed to become valedictorian of her Portland, Maine, high school. But her limited grasp of English made the SATs a horror: she scored 400 on the verbal portion (800 is perfect). At Bates she has a 3.6 GPA and interns at a hospital. "The fact that I've done well here shows that SAT scores don't affect how well a person can do," she says...
Since then, Interscope's sales have nearly tripled, to about $340 million this year. A hefty portion of those sales was spun off by its hugely profitable rap subsidiary, Death Row Records, whose owner, Suge Knight, is in prison and whose biggest star, Tupac, is dead, victim of a gangster-style rubout as he rode in Suge's BMW. Facing this kind of continuity problem, Iovine and Fields started focusing the company's resources on nonrap acts, and the shift is paying...
After presenting Timothy Bright and his family in some detail, the book abruptly shifts its emphasis, focusing on the Chief Constable. The Constable, finding the drugged Timothy passed out on his weekend home bed, hits him over the head with a bedside lamp. He then spends a significant portion of the novel trying to avoid public exposure by disposing of Timothy's almost lifeless body...
...leaves Timothy to be found. Timothy, upon finally emerging from his drug-induced stupor, is rather implausibly and with little comment sent to live with a neighbor, with "piggychops" and his family left hanging. Even the Constable is left with inadequate closure after being largely ignored for the last portion of the novel...
Given that more families have both parents of young children working than ever before, dependency on the child care system has become nearly ubiquitous. There are very few parents who do not, for some portion of the day, entrust their children to the care of strangers. For many Americans, this is not a choice: both parents have to work in order to pay the bills or keep the family out of poverty. Nonetheless, there is a lingering guilt that if women were good mothers, they wouldn't have to worry about child care at all. It is easy for that...