I hold that it could be true that fortune is the arbiter of half of actions, but that she still leaves the other half, or close to it, to be governed by us.
Two and a half weeks ago, neither team was in first place, but the Braves were a half game closer to it than the Mets.
"We're essentially offering to buy it for close to half what it is on the books for, which I think is prudent from the company's standpoint," Michael R. Klein, a Perini director and partner in the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, said yesterday.
The Republican success in Congressional races around the country extended to state legislatures, where the party picked up approximately 280 seats, moving it close to holding half of the 7,382 total seats.
With the top federal income tax rate close to half what it was in 1980, we should have seen a sharp drop in giving by the wealthy if tax considerations were paramount.
It is led by Rachel Kania, 28, and Tori Moreland, 25, who raised $46,000 for the Kitchen recall campaign, close to half of it from Joe Liemandt, billionaire CEO of the software firm Trilogy.
The deal affects close to half its customers.
In northeast Asia low-cost carriers only account for 7% of capacity, while in Southeast Asia they account for one third, and in South Asia it's close to a half.
Although the proportion diagnosed at age 20 24 years is currently close to half of what it was at the start of the study (17% in the first period vs 10% in the last period), the proportion diagnosed at age 25 years has increased almost three-fold (from 13%to38%8%).
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