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Word: partially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...areas, precisely where the reforms have generated less enthusiasm. To older workers in state industries, the demand for greater efficiency, with the threat of bankruptcy as the goad, presages more work with less job-security. Government bureaucrats and factory party committees resent and dislike the price rises which the partial freeing of the market has already meant...

Author: By Roderick L. Macfarquhar, | Title: Flowers Clipped in China | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Indeed, the Pope turned down Jaruzelski's offer to restore diplomatic relations with the Vatican and brought up Poland's human rights record. But Jaruzelski pronounced the meeting at least a partial success. Said he: "Two Poles must always understand each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Trying to Get Respect | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...instance, to anyone with a flair for chemistry, understanding the meanings of most terms found on the outside of commercially-packaged food or health-care products pose little problem. Partially hydrogenated soybean oil is simply oil extracted from soybeans, which contains several double-bonded carbon atoms per molecule, that has been reacted with hydrogen and a catalyst. This process breaks some of the double bonds, enabling a few more of the carbon atoms to accept electrons from the hydrogen. Partial or complete hydrogenation is performed to make a substance remain solid at higher temperatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson took the meet according to plan, starting off strong and never letting up. Harvard won four of the first six events, moving out to an 18-point lead and neutralizing a highly partial Brown crowd...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquawomen DrownBrown in Key Meet | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...Yale came in undefeated in the Ivy League, 6-0, looking to post a rare perfect Ivy slate. Harvard was 5-1 in the Ivies coming into The Game, needing a win to tie for the title. When the dust cleared, Harvard had emerged victorious, 21-16, and in partial possession of league honors...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: When Two Losing Teams Meet | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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