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An important fact in the decision to euthanize the bear was that a significant portion of the (hiker's) body was consumed and cached with the intent to return for further feeding, normal defensive attacks by female bears defending their young do not involve consumption of the victim's body. – Yellowstone National Park	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Having a higher protein portion is going to help fill you up and that’s beneficial if you’re trying to lose weight. – Heather Mangieri	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
A portion of T1 ticketing evacuated. Airlines affected: American, US Airways, Spirit, Frontier, United. Contact airline for flight status. – Paul International Airport	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There’s some fans that are alienated, a portion of the older fans. Younger fans seem to be embracing it. – Dimitrios Fragiskatos	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
In Colorado, since legalization, many dispensaries have seen the largest portion of sales going to baby boomers and people of retirement age. – Taylor West	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Much is being said about our momentum in leveraged finance but it represents a small portion of the progress our investment bank has made over the past several decades. We now have over 720 investment bankers in a dozen countries and have full service banking, research, and distribution capabilities in every industry vertical. – Richard Handler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We expected a certain amount of resistance from a portion of the people we targeted, but we’ve had nothing but positive feedback. – Jonathan Kinas	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If your home is a huge portion of your wealth, it might make sense to diversify your assets, you need to approach it as an investment asset, and you need to make decisions from that context as well. – Robert Stammers	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Suboxone is an opioid medication, it can be misused. Some use it intravenously, they inject it, and they have lost control over the medication and are truly addicted. But that's really a small portion of patients. All the evidence shows that this is small. – Adam Bisaga	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Seventy percent of cancers could be prevented if we can get people to stop smoking and improve their diets, and there’s clear evidence that a substantial portion of strokes and coronary heart disease can be avoided by blood pressure screening. – Linda Fried	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I would actually dream about the party we would have, I would think about how amazing that would feel to see my mother go to the party instead of chemo. Alicia Rivera, Alicia Rivera, has an amazing story of survival.She was diagnosed at 18 with PC, and is now not only a survivor, but is also a nursing student and a curePC campaign participant too. It is very rare to be so young and get that diagnosis and also rare to be a PC survivor.Only 7 percent of those diagnosed with PC survive five years, and an estimated 49,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year, with more than 40,000 of them dying before the year ends, according to the American Cancer Society. I asked Rivera how she found out she had PC and how she coped with the diagnosis at 18. I was young, and so many people said to me they couldn't believe it.I have Crohn's disease, and I had my wisdom teeth extracted in October of 2011. I went into septic shock, and that's when doctors did a scan, they found the tumor, and doctors at first thought it couldn't be PC, but did a biopsy to be sure, and it came it back positive, stage 1 pancreatic cancer. Alicia Rivera said she was shocked and recalled thinking that she was going to die. Doctors performed surgery to remove half of her pancreas, taking with it her gallbladder, a bile duct, lympho nodes and half of her stomach. They then reconnected her intestines to the remaining portion of her stomach. She said she hopes her story will help others stay connected to their bodies and to be aware of potential warning signs. PC is considered the silent killer, because by the time you feel symptoms, the tumor is usually metastasized. – Alicia Rivera	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If you had worked in non-covered employment for a significant portion of your career, there should be a shared burden between the pension you receive from that period of your employment and from Social Security in providing your benefit. – The SSA	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The country has only been shown a portion of my speech, which has been selective, if it were true that I said 'foreigners must go' this country would be up in flames. – Goodwill Zwelithini	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We find that a portion of the population is adjusting some activity at least in some simple ways like changing their privacy settings and being a bit more discreet in the things they say and search for. – Lee Rainie	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are numerous delicious combinations, including bruschetta, roasted red pepper pesto, or simply sautéing tomatoes in olive oil with garlic and herbs to toss with lean protein and a small portion of whole grain pasta. – Cynthia Sass	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It states 'It shall be the duty of the Capitol police on and after April 29, 1876, to prevent any portion of the Capitol Grounds and terraces from being used as playgrounds or otherwise, so far as may be necessary to protect the public property, turf and grass from destruction or injury,'. – Frank Larkin	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Dr Homer said. The laser treats only the iris and does not enter the pupil or treat any portion of the inside of the eye where the nerves affecting the vision are located. The company is still in the fundraising stage but hopes to have completed clinical trials within several years. And the cost of turning your brown eyes blue ? Dr Homer says Stroma Medical would charge around $ 5,000( £ 3,120) for the procedure. Industry skepticism Industry reaction to the process has been muted. Ophthalmologists who deal with people's eyes, Dr Homer concedes, have every right to be skeptical for the simple fact they are dealing with one of the most sensitive organs in the human body. Saj Khan, an ophthalmologist at the London Eye Hospital, told CNN the treatment raised some red flags. ' The main concern with any procedure that involves releasing pigment inside the eye is that the pigment can clog up the normal drainage channels which can in turn cause the pressure inside the eye to go up, if that happens significantly enough, for long enough, it's how patients develop glaucoma. – Saj Khan	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I always suggest clients consolidate it in the form of good debt, like a mortgage on your primary residence, you are borrowing against an appreciating asset, you don't have to worry about inflation increasing the payment, and the interest is deductible. As long as this debt is a small portion of your net worth, it is okay to play a little arbitrage, especially considering stock market risk, where a sudden decline could leave older investors very vulnerable. – Stephen Doucette	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The logic behind it is that a good number of a people in the southern portion of the state, the media markets there, will already be engaged, since they are here already, it would be smart for us to move forward and have it a week after South Carolina. It's efficiency and reducing the costs of campaign expenses. They will have been here already, the money will have been spent. – Bob Rucho	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Cooking any vegetable softens the fiber and shrinks the portion as some of the water cooks out, so it takes up less space in the GI tract. – Cynthia Sass	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period. – Thiruman Archunan	added by Thiruman Archunan 9 years ago
This month, we also closed out virtually the entire remaining portion of our first-quarter hedge positions. – John Rainey	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We talk to them about healthy food choices, reading nutrition facts labels, portion control, healthy food choices when eating out and healthier drinks, among others. – Sandra Arevalo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s important to understand that at least a portion of these difficulties may have a neurological foundation. – Vassilis Koliatsos	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

An important fact in the decision to euthanize the bear was that a significant portion of the (hiker's) body was consumed and cached with the intent to return for further feeding, normal defensive attacks by female bears defending their young do not involve consumption of the victim's body.

– Yellowstone National Park

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Having a higher protein portion is going to help fill you up and that’s beneficial if you’re trying to lose weight.

– Heather Mangieri

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A portion of T1 ticketing evacuated. Airlines affected: American, US Airways, Spirit, Frontier, United. Contact airline for flight status.

– Paul International Airport

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There’s some fans that are alienated, a portion of the older fans. Younger fans seem to be embracing it.

– Dimitrios Fragiskatos

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In Colorado, since legalization, many dispensaries have seen the largest portion of sales going to baby boomers and people of retirement age.

– Taylor West

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Much is being said about our momentum in leveraged finance but it represents a small portion of the progress our investment bank has made over the past several decades. We now have over 720 investment bankers in a dozen countries and have full service banking, research, and distribution capabilities in every industry vertical.

– Richard Handler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We expected a certain amount of resistance from a portion of the people we targeted, but we’ve had nothing but positive feedback.

– Jonathan Kinas

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If your home is a huge portion of your wealth, it might make sense to diversify your assets, you need to approach it as an investment asset, and you need to make decisions from that context as well.

– Robert Stammers

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Suboxone is an opioid medication, it can be misused. Some use it intravenously, they inject it, and they have lost control over the medication and are truly addicted. But that's really a small portion of patients. All the evidence shows that this is small.

– Adam Bisaga

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Seventy percent of cancers could be prevented if we can get people to stop smoking and improve their diets, and there’s clear evidence that a substantial portion of strokes and coronary heart disease can be avoided by blood pressure screening.

– Linda Fried

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I would actually dream about the party we would have, I would think about how amazing that would feel to see my mother go to the party instead of chemo. Alicia Rivera, Alicia Rivera, has an amazing story of survival.She was diagnosed at 18 with PC, and is now not only a survivor, but is also a nursing student and a curePC campaign participant too. It is very rare to be so young and get that diagnosis and also rare to be a PC survivor.Only 7 percent of those diagnosed with PC survive five years, and an estimated 49,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year, with more than 40,000 of them dying before the year ends, according to the American Cancer Society. I asked Rivera how she found out she had PC and how she coped with the diagnosis at 18. I was young, and so many people said to me they couldn't believe it.I have Crohn's disease, and I had my wisdom teeth extracted in October of 2011. I went into septic shock, and that's when doctors did a scan, they found the tumor, and doctors at first thought it couldn't be PC, but did a biopsy to be sure, and it came it back positive, stage 1 pancreatic cancer. Alicia Rivera said she was shocked and recalled thinking that she was going to die. Doctors performed surgery to remove half of her pancreas, taking with it her gallbladder, a bile duct, lympho nodes and half of her stomach. They then reconnected her intestines to the remaining portion of her stomach. She said she hopes her story will help others stay connected to their bodies and to be aware of potential warning signs. PC is considered the silent killer, because by the time you feel symptoms, the tumor is usually metastasized.

– Alicia Rivera

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If you had worked in non-covered employment for a significant portion of your career, there should be a shared burden between the pension you receive from that period of your employment and from Social Security in providing your benefit.

– The SSA

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The country has only been shown a portion of my speech, which has been selective, if it were true that I said 'foreigners must go' this country would be up in flames.

– Goodwill Zwelithini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We find that a portion of the population is adjusting some activity at least in some simple ways like changing their privacy settings and being a bit more discreet in the things they say and search for.

– Lee Rainie

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There are numerous delicious combinations, including bruschetta, roasted red pepper pesto, or simply sautéing tomatoes in olive oil with garlic and herbs to toss with lean protein and a small portion of whole grain pasta.

– Cynthia Sass

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It states 'It shall be the duty of the Capitol police on and after April 29, 1876, to prevent any portion of the Capitol Grounds and terraces from being used as playgrounds or otherwise, so far as may be necessary to protect the public property, turf and grass from destruction or injury,'.

– Frank Larkin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Dr Homer said. The laser treats only the iris and does not enter the pupil or treat any portion of the inside of the eye where the nerves affecting the vision are located. The company is still in the fundraising stage but hopes to have completed clinical trials within several years. And the cost of turning your brown eyes blue ? Dr Homer says Stroma Medical would charge around $ 5,000( £ 3,120) for the procedure. Industry skepticism Industry reaction to the process has been muted. Ophthalmologists who deal with people's eyes, Dr Homer concedes, have every right to be skeptical for the simple fact they are dealing with one of the most sensitive organs in the human body. Saj Khan, an ophthalmologist at the London Eye Hospital, told CNN the treatment raised some red flags. ' The main concern with any procedure that involves releasing pigment inside the eye is that the pigment can clog up the normal drainage channels which can in turn cause the pressure inside the eye to go up, if that happens significantly enough, for long enough, it's how patients develop glaucoma.

– Saj Khan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I always suggest clients consolidate it in the form of good debt, like a mortgage on your primary residence, you are borrowing against an appreciating asset, you don't have to worry about inflation increasing the payment, and the interest is deductible. As long as this debt is a small portion of your net worth, it is okay to play a little arbitrage, especially considering stock market risk, where a sudden decline could leave older investors very vulnerable.

– Stephen Doucette

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The logic behind it is that a good number of a people in the southern portion of the state, the media markets there, will already be engaged, since they are here already, it would be smart for us to move forward and have it a week after South Carolina. It's efficiency and reducing the costs of campaign expenses. They will have been here already, the money will have been spent.

– Bob Rucho

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Cooking any vegetable softens the fiber and shrinks the portion as some of the water cooks out, so it takes up less space in the GI tract.

– Cynthia Sass

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.

– Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

This month, we also closed out virtually the entire remaining portion of our first-quarter hedge positions.

– John Rainey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We talk to them about healthy food choices, reading nutrition facts labels, portion control, healthy food choices when eating out and healthier drinks, among others.

– Sandra Arevalo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s important to understand that at least a portion of these difficulties may have a neurological foundation.

– Vassilis Koliatsos

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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