Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years to come into respectable maturity. And like its middle-aged academic minors it suffers unrealistically--albeit understandably--from a certain unconscionable timidity in asserting its newly acknowledged stature along the traditional progression in full citizenship. It has finally achieved for members admitted so degree candidacy the privileges, partial but vital, of library facilities, parking places, its own half building in the Yard (Lehman Hall), with a lounge for TV courses, a donated infant library of its own, use of the cafeteria, below, and vocational and educational guidance services. But it still retains an sure more cinder-than-ella before...
Similarly, the published statistics do not reflect the fact that many of those who are counted as jobholders are only partially employed. According to the BLS, there are 3.7 million Americans who are working short hours or hold part-time jobs because they cannot find full-tune work. One little-noted BLS measure called "labor-force time lost" combines partial employment with unemployment on a man-hour basis to show the recession in terms of missing production time rather than missing jobs. The current rate...
Residents of the MIT-owned Eastgate and Westgate apartments in Cambridge are continuing a partial rent strike because of MIT's demand for payment of a rent increase...
...said this system is the partial cause for the "floating vote"--voters who go into the polling place undecided--of 30 to 40 per cent in Israeli elections...
...been stung in the past six months by a 25% drop in world wholesale prices for green coffee, to a barely profitable 520 per Ib. (Retail prices in the U.S. have held at around $1.25 per Ib. because of increases in packaging and distribution costs.) Chief proponents of the partial embargo are Mexico and the Central American countries, whose coffee income has been hit by declining demand and steep rises in the cost of petroleum-based fertilizer...