• But they advised people against eating more than one portion each week of either shark or swordfish or marlin.

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  • So, the rigidity of one portion of the economy increased rapidly.

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  • Instead of viewing a biological change in one portion of a cell, researchers using the Analyzer can track three different parts using highly precise lasers and digital cameras.

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  • But as the Speaker said I believe yesterday, this is a government --Congress and the executive branch -- where one portion of it does not get to dictate the outcome.

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  • It is one of the paradoxical curiosities of this life that people may be capable experts in an area and apply that assiduously to one portion of their lives, and not to another.

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  • There are obvious contextual elements in these three statements that must be attended to, and there are business books that take these three steps and turn them into 100 steps, or write several volumes on one portion of a step.

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  • It looks like pure fat, but it isn't, really, just mainly, and when served in the split shank bone (as at places like the Knickerbocker or Prune in New York City), one portion will keep you in a state of sensory-specific satiety for a week.

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  • But holding a portion of one's wealth in a basket of foreign currencies is advisable, he says, as a portion of one's consumption over time comes from foreign goods produced both in developed and emerging markets.

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  • Unlike the Western convention, where you serve yourself one large portion at the beginning of a get-together, in Thai culture, you serve yourself the equivalent to a bite-size portion many times throughout the meal.

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  • It was understood around Baton Rougeans that New Orleans is where one misspent a small portion of one's youth, but after college, one not only better stay out of it but quit mentioning it altogether.

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  • When Dena Drews, cofounder of the small Amalie Robert winery in Dallas, Oregon, looks out over her sloped vineyard 60 miles southwest of Portland, one small portion of it appears silver rather than lush green.

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  • And what he's threatening to do, really the implicit threat, is that they would split the companies into two so that the safe portion, the municipal bond portion, would be one company, and the troubled portion would be another company, and of course the minute that happens, those troubled companies are basically doomed because it's the municipal bond part of the thing that's holding the whole apparatus up.

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  • For example, Capital One earns a large portion of its income from late fees or finance charges on cardholder loans, which are only charged if the cardholder does not pay the full monthly balance within an allotted period.

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  • You had Intel that established itself in the one true value-added portion of that architecture -- the microprocessor.

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  • These attorneys work under a contingency-fee arrangement, meaning they are paid a portion (usually one-third) of the money they are able to collect for the victims.

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  • One example: Consumers who one month pay only a portion of an online bill (a practice known as "paying short") might knock their Fiserv ranking but would not impact their credit score.

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  • There could be a provision that the mix of equities and fixed-income securities in each account would change over time: As one got older, the portion of funds invested in fixed-income instruments, such as bonds, would increase, thereby reducing stock market exposure.

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  • So, for most of the Pashtun, the departure of the Taliban will be welcomed, but there will certainly be concerns that representatives of the Pashtun community have a significant say in the development of a new government in Afghanistan, one that reflects the significant portion of the population that is Pashtun.

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  • One reason may be that some portion of voters would prefer a divided government.

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  • The 79, 000 Taiyuan workers amount to only a small portion of the roughly one million workers at Hon Hai's more than 20 plants across China.

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  • First, choice has always been restricted by industry, yet no one objected to the far smaller portion sizes common in the 1980s or lobbied for the freedom to supersize.

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  • The portion was less than one-fifth two years earlier.

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  • And of that inequality a certain portion (a highly arguable one too) comes from the very presence of that City in it.

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  • He found that one effect of giving bosses a significant portion of their pay in share options was to stimulate acquisitions and divestitures.

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  • But there is one operation helping to keep a small portion of the struggling shipyard afloat and is as far from its origins as can be.

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  • Smith, such a virtuosic scorer that no one minds when he skips the rebounding portion of pre-game layup lines, also poured in 31 points against Oregon on Friday and had 50 points in his first two NCAA tournament games.

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  • Fam Mirza, a young entrepreneur who has never let convention get in the way of a good idea, has launched a new watch company called 1:Face Watch that is a for profit business that promises to donate a portion of its revenue to one of six causes each one associated with a color (think bright pink for breast cancer).

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  • I, for one, would be glad to pay a portion of my earnings to fund high-quality health care for the truly needy.

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  • These advisers breached their fiduciary duty by allowing their clients to invest such a substantial portion of their financial assets into one product.

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  • One of many shantytowns that house a large portion of the city's 5 million people, it gives a taste of the poverty of the Venezuelan countryside beyond.

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