Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deficit. The President first dug into the domestic portion of his program, rattling off more than a dozen general proposals for the 89th's second session. Then, almost casually, he dropped the word that next year's administrative budget will be a record-breaking $112.8 billion, while the estimate for federal revenues for the same period totals $111 billion. That left a deficit of $1.8 billion, which, Johnson carefully emphasized, would be "one of the lowest in many years." In fact, he said, the cash budget for fiscal 1967 (as opposed to the smaller administrative budget, which does...
Hershey was asked if college students would be drafted if they failed to obtain a passing grade on the test or were unable to maintain their standing in the specified upper portion of their class. He said that he could not estimate when such students might be drafted...
...sturdier rigs required cost as much as $10 million apiece; to drill a well costs another $2,000,000. Not every well is a strike, nor is every strike a commercial proposition: Continental Oil Co. of England, the only other company that has struck gas in Britain's portion of the North Sea, recently abandoned its strike less than two weeks after finding...
...distortion of the printed statement lies in the addition of the word 'less' which implies that I was making some comparison with Harvard whereas in fact in this portion of my remarks I was speaking generally about the problem of selecting a school...
...blocking a Hudson River hydroelectric project, the court reprieved a portion of the Harvard Black Rock Forest scheduled to be inundated by an 8-billion-gallon reservoir...