Word: portion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...badgering minorities. Contrary to his sworn testimony last March that he had not used the word nigger in the past 10 years, Fuhrman's blustering talk on the tapes is laced with that word and contains other terms offensive to African Americans, Hispanics, women and Jews. In a portion of the transcripts obtained by TIME, for instance, he tells Martha Lorrie Diaz, a friend of McKinny's, that women cops are ineffectual "because they don't do anything. They don't go out and initiate a contact with some 6-ft. 5-in. nigger that's been in prison...
Netscape, based in Mountain View, California, makes an essential piece of Internet software known as a browser, which can be thought of as the 3-D glasses your computer wears to pick up images, sounds and text on the World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet. Netscape controls a cozy 70% of the market for browsing software...
During the negotiations, union members strongly criticized the proposed benefits package, especially the reductions which it said "penalized" part-time workers. The new schedule delays implementation of that portion of the package until January...
...week seemed to be the overture. By week's end, young men had disappeared from the streets of Zagreb, called up into the army, and Croat forces had begun to gather near Karlovac, just north of Krajina. A U.N. spokesman says massive Croat attacks on Krajina, the Serb-held portion of Croatia, "may be initiated soon, possibly within days...
...advertisements for an action movie throughout the day, and will be suspicious when they sit down to watch it that night and see a blank screen. At the same time, these daytime teaser ads will undoubtedly become more common, as networks find that they are losing a good portion of their viewing audience to the little black box behind the television...