Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wright said yesterday a "clear majority" of the House privately supported his plan for dodging a pre-deadline vote and then voting a partial rollback of the raise along with a ban on honoraria...
Wright released partial results of a personal questionnaire, showing 57 percent of House members opposing a pay raise vote before the deadline and 54 percent favoring instead a vote to reduce the raise to 30 percent...
...move, which affects such items as Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal, Keebler's Soft Batch cookies, Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish crackers and Sunshine's Hydrox cookies, is prompted by health considerations -- and rising consumer pressure. Manufacturers have long been partial to the balmy-sounding vegetable oils -- coconut, palm-kernel and palm -- mainly because they impart a nongreasy taste and texture and extend the shelf life of products. But they are also high in saturated fat, the prime booster of blood-cholesterol levels. Coconut oil contains 92% saturated fat, palm-kernel oil 86% and palm oil 51%. In comparison...
...rule sparked massive protests from college coaches. At the center of the controversy is the alleged racial bias of the rule: 83 percent of the approximately 700 partial qualifiers sitting out under Proposition 48 are Blacks...
Georgetown's Thompson complains that Proposition 42 discriminates against Blacks because it deprives only the disadvantaged of the means to get a college education. Presumably, wealthy, academically deficient athletes will still be able to pay their own way and sit out a year under the partial qualifier rule...