Word: portion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...printing error, a portion of the last sentence of yesterday's staff editorial, "Investigate Charges," was inadvertently omitted. The complete sentence was, "The matter should be taken out of their hands and handled professionally and expeditiously by the FAS dean...
...teams in the round-robin portion of the tournament will face-off next Tuesday to determine the 1994 Beanpot Champion...
Likud governments financed settlements in the territories to establish further control over the land, pessimistic that Arabs would ever trade full peace for just a portion of the "Palestine" they claim. Based on Israel's brief but difficult past, these previous administrations believed that Palestinians and Arabs would forever consider Israel an alien presence in the Middle East and work for its annihilation...
Unfortunately, Roth agreed with his hostile reviewers. He had developed strong Communist sympathies and gamely set about writing the proletarian novel his conscience demanded of him. That was where his long troubles began. Torn between his artistic instincts and his political beliefs, he produced only a small portion of his second novel and then sank into decades of painful silence. In 1939 Roth married Muriel Parker, a composer and pianist, a union that would last 51 years until her death in 1990. The couple had two sons, and Roth did what he could to support a family. During World...
...Redstone prevails, Davis, 66, will soon leave the company he has run successfully since 1983. There would be no place for Davis under Diller. And two weeks ago, Viacom announced an $8.4 billion merger with home-video retailer Blockbuster Entertainment. That deal enabled Viacom to sweeten the cash portion of its bid for Paramount but left little in the way of a role for Davis. With the bidding war now in its final phase -- a winner is expected to emerge in early February -- Davis met last week with TIME Boston bureau chief Sam Allis and business editor Sam Gwynne...