• After many years of resistance, large portions of the U.S. population are finally beginning to get it right.

    FORBES: Briefing Book: A. Michael Lipper

  • The dishes came in large portions, but more than half of each course was untouched.

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  • By making large portions of their platforms free, Google, Linux, and Wikipedia create sustainable business models.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Does this look like good scientific evidence for banning the sale of large portions of soft drinks?

    CNN: Forget large sodas, how about banning French fries?

  • Staggeringly large portions of food--20-oz. veal chops, 28-oz. prime rib, large lobsters and a 3-lb. whole roasted chicken.

    FORBES: Fact And Comment

  • Luckily, the utility industry needs to upgrade large portions of its transmission system.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Staggeringly large portions of food--20-oz. veal chops, a 28-oz. prime rib, large lobsters and a 3-lb. whole roasted chicken.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • The menu is standard steakhouse fare known for its large portions (the Southern Style fried chicken is a full chicken).

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  • When these books are read with the iPad held in landscape (horizontally), visuals take up large portions of the screen.

    WSJ: A Textbook Case of iPad Fun With Studying

  • The spill, which Hayward himself called an environmental catastrophe, fouled large portions of the coastline in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.

    CNN: BP's Hayward: Oil spill wasn't because of cost-cutting

  • Much of the evidence is classified, which means large portions of the trial are likely to be closed to reporters and the public.

    NPR: Prosecutor: Manning Dumped Info Into Enemy Hands

  • Large portions of these trips are made on the area's winding rivers -- no easy feat when traveling with 30 to 40 containers of medical supplies.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • So now, I spend a large portions of my free time watching praying mantids molt, hummingbirds catch gnats over the compost pile, monarch caterpillars munch away the milkweed.

    FORBES: Books And Mantids

  • Many FCS schools rely on the payouts to fund large portions of annual athletic spending and will be in a very difficult spot without the well-paid on-field sacrifices.

    FORBES: Big Ten's Cupcake Diet Could Spell Disaster For FCS Schools

  • The scars are evident but what is not so apparent to someone just talking to him is the pain he still feels over large portions of his body.

    BBC: US Army seeks new ways to treat facial skin injuries

  • It has yet to develop large portions of the west.

    FORBES: China's Most Immediate Economic Problem

  • In particular my father-in-law wanted to me to evaluate the claim that a national sales tax would solve the problem of large portions of the country paying no income tax.

    FORBES: Herman Cain Is A Great Presidential Candidate, But 9-9-9 Is A Bad Plan

  • Unlike a game like Skyrim, which I suspect lost large amounts of DLC sales by waiting too long after release, Borderlands likely captured its audience just as large portions were itching for new content.

    FORBES: Borderlands 2 Approaching 6 Million Copies Shipped

  • Commercial relations between the nations are already tense because of recent Indian regulations that would impose a sweeping "Buy India" mandate, requiring that large portions of high-tech products purchased by the government be manufactured locally.

    WSJ: Indian IT Workers in Cross Hairs of U.S. Bill

  • Despite Young dancing his way through the box and blazing over keeper Sullivan - and the bar - in the opening exchanges, Doncaster more than matched their Premier League counterparts for large portions of the match.

    BBC: Aston Villa 3-1 Doncaster

  • So, here is my "modest" solution to the debt crisis: Other nations should forgive large portions of our debt in exchange for all the "free" global defense we have given the world over the last 95 years.

    FORBES: How To Fix The U.S. Deficit

  • This created a fantastic opportunity for asset-based lenders like Presidential to capture large portions of the market that had been abandoned by traditional small business lenders like banks and credit unions over the last three or four years.

    FORBES: Thinking Outside the Box

  • Beaches that were washed away are coming back, due both to nature and bulldozers, and real estate agents say demand for this strangest of upcoming summers appears good, particularly in the large portions of the Jersey shore that were relatively unscathed by Sandy.

    NPR: 6 Months After Sandy, Thousands Homeless In NY, NJ

  • President Bill Clinton in his final days in office brokered negotiations that yielded a final settlement offer from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak that ceded large portions of the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians, but Arafat effectively rejected it.

    FORBES: Yasir Arafat Dies

  • Scott, who was working on his own novel based on her mental illness, "Tender is the Night, " was livid that she had covered similar territory in her book, and insisted that Scribner cut large portions of the novel that overlapped with what he was working on.

    WSJ: Zelda Fitzgerald's Moment

  • In that book he argues that even Western economies are moving away from free market capitalism and toward state capitalism, a system where governments take over large portions of the economy and do what is in their best interest rather than what's in the best interest of the private sector.

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  • "Much of the world's population in North America, Europe, most of China and large portions of Russia live near temperate forests, so what happens in these forests has global importance, " said Jerry Franklin, a professor of forest resources at the University of Washington whose work was instrumental in maintaining the research plots.

    CNN: Global warming threatens forests, study says

  • Using DNA sequencing, Rothberg says, doctors in the not-too-distant future will finger genetic weak spots in tumors and treat cancer patients with customized drugs. (This is already happening at some cancer centers.) Kids born with rare diseases will get large portions of their genome decoded to pinpoint the cause, eliminating guesswork and misdiagnoses.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • So despite having a drug in front of the FDA, AVEO is currently a negative return for its venture investors (the ones who have held large portions to date) or at most a marginal win (1.3x) for those that exited in 2011 (looks like Flagship has exited, whereas MPM, Highland have been holding at least some of their positions).

    FORBES: Biotech's Capital Intensity Challenge: A Post-Mortem on 2007's Biggest Deals

  • That's a nice way of saying that during recent years the Harvard Management Company, the university's investment subsidiary, diverted large portions of the university's endowment assets out of safe but poky low-yield securities (as of last June fixed-income investments accounted for only 16% of Harvard's portfolio) and into what this Forbes story describes as "exotic financial instruments": derivatives, hedge funds, private equity partnerships, commodities and emerging-market equities.

    FORBES: How Harvard Should Handle Its Endowment

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