Word: portion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate, we did pass them and stroked hard on to the power stretch, a portion of the river marked by bridges, upon which sit spectators who think you are a boat of Championship Eight caliber. I felt confident and pulled harder until our cox gave us the encouraging reminder that we had made it half way. This is about as encouraging as a grade from the Government Department: "Excellent paper...
Each hour earns them a portion of the profits, and last year students shared $9600. Participants usually work a minimum of two and a half hours a day and attend classes for the rest...
...LOOK only at the large strokes in Letters, however, another explanation for its size emerges, one more believable, more acceptable, though less flattering to Barth. Each of his correspondents either relives or believes he is reliving a portion of his past life. Lady Amherst echoing Samuel Johnson, calls it "an epidemic rage for reenactment." Andrews draws up a detailed schedule of the events that led up to his first decision to commit suicide, and realizes he's reliving it all, and heading in the same direction. Each generation in the exhaustive family history of the Cook/Burlingame clan spends the first...
Local 300 is also demanding improved health and welfare benefits, Polimeno said. "We'd like the University to pay completely for our medical plan instead of for just a portion of it," he said...
...large portion of the increased cost of building Seabrook is the result of stricter safety and environmental standards, made necessary by the public's greater awareness of nuclear power's potential hazards. The danger of a nuclear accident or core meltdown is one which takes on an ominous importance in light of Seabrook's proximity to Boston. The near-disaster at Three Mile Island has exploded the myth of a fail-safe nuclear plant...