Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election of twelve provincial legislators in wine-and petroleum-producing Mendoza a fortnight ago measured the fall of Frondizi's popularity: his party lost every seat that it had held. President Frondizi is booed in the newsreels, jeered at on public occasions, disliked by even a large portion of his own party. But he plunges grimly on: "A lowering of the standard of living of Argentines is inevitable during the next two years. It is impossible to continue consuming more than is produced...
Furthermore., the state-and local-government market for Government bonds is drying up. Once, most states specified that a large portion of their pension funds had to be invested in federal bonds. Today many permit them to be invested in higher-yielding corporate bonds. An even bigger Government market used to be insurance companies, mutual-savings banks, savings-and-loan associations and corporate pension funds. From 1952 through 1958, these institutions trimmed their federal-bond holdings from $23.9 billion to $20.6 billion, bypassed the Treasury entirely in putting more than $90 billion in non-Government investments...
...neither wants nor will pay for a citywide broadside. In Pasco, Wash., Sears, Roebuck began distributing handbill ads rather than accept the latest hike in ad rates. Moreover, newspapers, which once enjoyed a hefty 45% of the advertising pie, must compete with television. Last year alone, TV's portion rose 1% to 13% of the pie. The newspapers' 1958 share...
...large portion of the credit for this Crimson victory must go, unfortunately, to the adverse weather which prevailed throughout the game. A high wind was blowing at most times and the temperature was a wintry 40 degrees. B.C. pitcher George Giersch, perhaps the finest hurler in the Greater Boston League is primarily a slow ball, control pitcher, and he just could not keep the fine edge on his pitches under such conditions...
...self-evident-that a high-jumper can clear a high hurdle every time. Checking back to the scholastic aptitude tests that Bill Waterhouse took in December, college counselors found that he had scored perfectly in mathematics, slipped to 797 out of 800 in the test's verbal portion. Last year, taking the exams for practice as a junior, Bill missed nothing in the two aptitude tests, in the achievement tests did perfectly in math, scored 795 in physics and slipped to a merely brilliant 742 in English. (There are no records to show whether Bill's scores...