Word: portion
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Harshbarger wants NYNEX to adopt the "geographic split" reminiscent of the last area code change in 1988. With the split, the current 617 area code would be split into 617 and 781. A portion removed from the 508 area code would have the number changed to 978. The result is 1 million people with changed area codes...
...miles farther into Zaire than the airport at Goma. Those inside Mugunga could not leave because they were being held in place by militant Hutu militias. And the camp was under siege by ethnic Tutsi rebels from Zaire, probably assisted by the Tutsi-led government of Rwanda. Another huge portion of refugees was presumed to be scattered in Zaire's forests. If Canadian, American, French, British and other soldiers simply sat on the tarmac in Goma, how would food ever reach the people who needed it most...
...details of the UBC's retirement subcommittee recommendation are simple: increase the salary portion under the Social Security wage base for faculty under age 40 from four percent to five percent and the remainder to 10 percent. Although this may seem like a generous move on first inspection, do not be fooled; the "raise" was more of a restoration than an addition...
...next step in the service portion of Project HEALTH is to implement a program in the hospital or to represent an individual patient's case...
Clinton's success owes most to his least liberal moments. He pushed through a crime bill whose federal portion paid for 100,000 cops by cutting federal employees and gave death-row prisoners a shorter lease on life. By signing welfare reform, he managed to win over moderates with his tough-love approach while convincing liberals they should stick with him as the best hope for fixing what they most hated in the bill he had just signed. In 1992 it would have been a wild, drunken Republican dream that by 1996 a 60-year-old entitlement like...