Word: portion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aftermath of the shooting, Richard Griffin, the Secret Service agent in charge of presidential security, raised anew the idea of closing off that portion of Pennsylvania Avenue that runs in front of the White House in order to give agents easier control of sightseers. Protests came from all quarters, including Bill Clinton, who said, "I just don't think in a free society you can have the President of the country kind of hiding in the sand and just wall him off in the White House...
...Capitol Hill and elsewhere. "Too damn many Secret Service," says a White House aide, believing the agency may have passed the threshold of true security and now complicates its own operations. The entire Secret Service has a budget of $461 million and employs 4,600 people worldwide, but what portion goes to presidential protection is not known. What is known is that a Secret Service request for more money is almost never turned down by Congress and that a certain institutional arrogance infects the agency. "They are good but not as good as they think they are," says a former...
...typical daily menu would include a breakfast consisting of one half a pear, a half glass of milk and half a piece of bread. Lunch would consist of the other halves of each of these items, and dinner would be a small portion of the family's meal...
When the president took office, the country faced several major economic challenges, including rising federal deficit and increasing loss of jobs. Female heads of households, an ever-increasing portion of the labor force (which is 47 percent female), were particularly hard hit by a worsening economy. The president's economic plan has begun to put our economic house back in order. There are nearly 4.3 million new jobs in the first 19 months of this administration, and the president's plan is reducing the deficit by nearly $700 billion over five years...
...echo some of our self-righteously Christian spokesmen, how far we have strayed from the narrow path prescribed by the prophets! A sizable portion of the electorate, probably no less Judeo-Christian than anyone else, stands ready to let the richer candidate buy its votes, on the theory that the rich cannot be bought themselves. In the case of Michael Huffington in California or Ross Perot in '92, piles of earthly treasure are proffered, with a straight face, as proof of one's ability to lead. But who can fault our lucre-crazed political culture when even the televangelists promise...