Word: partialities
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...proponents of conversion state that partial diversification is not enough to avoid crippling economic hardships if Washington priorities change...
...next President. But scarcely 26 hours after the polls had closed, the electoral experiment began to slide into the kind of political violence and chaos that torments the rest of Central America. As the National Tabulating Board laboriously hand-tallied several hundred thousand votes and inexplicably delayed announcing even partial results, supporters of Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 82, took to the streets to protest what they claimed was a clumsy attempt by his opponents to steal the election...
...cannot be dispensed with in a hard world where dedicated enemies resort to them freely. But they are extraordinarily difficult to conduct successfully, and not only because in a democracy they cannot long be kept secret. That, to be sure, is a major problem, internally as well as externally. Partial stories leak; wild rumors fly; the Government is unable to explain fully what it is doing and why; public distrust grows...
Cambridge taxi drivers won a partial victory last week when Yellow Cabs of Cambridge announced that its proposed sale of 52 taxi licenses to Ambassador Brattle Cabs was off averting a near monopoly of taxi cabs in the city...
...Healey, who for a quarter-century headed the party's Southern California district: "What was the meaning of life? You had that answer." But those same eyes, sparkling with conviction, could be blinkered in the face of such trifles as the Moscow trials, the Hitler-Stalin pact, the partial annexation of Finland and, later, the taking over of Eastern Europe and the reports of Gulag atrocities. It was not until 1956, and Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, that even the most loyal of party members began to wonder how something so good turned out so bad. By that...