Word: slices
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...serves on the group examining pedagogy. “On the one hand we are representatives of the student body, but we’re also just some students who are on the committee. The eight students who are on these committees are not a slice of Harvard—we are people who interested in this stuff...
...effectiveness and availability of medical care. In maintaining a filibuster, Senate Democrats are turning away from the interests of the people and instead submitting to the demands of lawyers, who stand to lose out twice if the bill passes. Lawyers will be allowed to take a comparatively smaller slice of a reduced pie: Not only would the bill impose absolute caps on the amount of money paid out, it would also limit the percentage of those damages that attorneys are allowed to claim. According to a study released by the Employment Policy Foundation, lawyers see an astounding 52 percent...
...Surat's spotless Venus Jewel factory, each pressing his thumb on an electronic fingerprint scanner that releases a turnstile. After removing footwear, to ensure they don't leave with diamonds stuck to their soles, the cutters are handed plastic bags filled with rough diamonds. Operating lathes and lasers, they slice, polish and facet the cloudy crystals into sparkling gems, churning out about $150 million worth each year. Venus and several hundred other factories, employing 300,000 cutters in total, have made Surat the heart of India's thriving diamond-polishing industry, which last year cut 92% of the world...
Each family has a pie of resources. By resources I mean parental time, energy and, of course, money. Some families have extra-large, supersize pies, and some have small pies. But no matter what the size of the pie, if you're going to slice it into more and more slices, each kid is going to get a smaller slice...
...might the rift between Kerry and the church he calls a "bedrock of values, of sureness about who I am" affect the election? Catholics are among the narrow slice of the electorate considered truly up for grabs this year, and they constitute a major share of the voters in the Midwestern and Southwestern swing states. Those who are most strongly antiabortion are probably already in Bush's camp. But many Catholics are, like Kerry, struggling with contradictions between the church's teachings and what they practice. Still others say abortion is not the only issue that matters when they vote...