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Some homeless people choose not to join because doing so requires them to participate in drug-treatment programs and to turn over a substantial portion of their income from jobs or public benefits.

Not only would they be handing over a substantial portion of their revenues to Apple, but they get virtually no data in return data about customers.

In general, the loop legs are not constrained within the bore cross section, and during installation, the legs can twist and contact one another over a substantial portion of the bore length, thereby degrading performance.

The analyses show that the regions with strong chemical activity in MILD combustion are distributed over a substantial portion of the computational domain unlike in the premixed case where these regions are confined to a small portion of the domain.

To assess the quality of the predictions for the response of the scaled structures, high-speed stereo-vision system is employed to quantify the transient dynamic plate response over a substantial portion of the structure.

Over a substantial portion of the country, the storm produced torrential rains that triggered deadly flash floods.

Grippingly but not giddily, Ms. Kaylin and Ms. Auerbach now fill readers in on the Cheerios-begrimed true history behind the parodies, demonstrating that most nannies are not hired by socialites in white-glove buildings, but by cash-strapped working women, who turn over to them a substantial portion (sometimes all) of their earnings.

Gold and Sullivan, life-long Hammers fans, inherited a mountain of debt and a background of administrative chaos when they took over and Zola knows a substantial portion of the supporters appreciate the efforts he has made in adversity.

The worldwide bitumen and heavy-oil reserves are estimated at over 6 trillion barrels, a substantial portion of which resides in Western Canada (Upreti et al. 2007).

Earlier this month, the Clintons released their tax returns over eight years, showing they earned $109 million over that period, with a substantial portion likewise coming from book sales.

Of course, enormously expensive air and naval weapons systems -- often accompanied by huge cost over-runs -- account for a substantial portion of the Pentagon's budget.