Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's interest in government goings-on exists for two major reasons. Firstly, as a major research university its scientists and scholars rely extensively on government monies to support their work. Secondly a large portion of the discussed legislation both on Capitol Hill and the State House often can have a direct hearing on atleast one of Harvard's 10 schools. Harvard employs three full-time people to take care of its interests in Washington. D C--the most of any university--and one to minor state affairs...
When it goes on sale in the Square, Cornpopper's freshly popped kernels will sell at the rate of about $1 for a portion the size of a medium bag of chips. Interesting prodicts, though, also deserve interesting containers, and Gainsborough offers that his popcorn will also be sold in 1-, 4 1/2-, 6-, and 16-gallon cans. Of course, the cans will be anything but plain--artists have been hired to design them with colorful drawings, lithographs and decals...
Holmberg has just signed on for another year at CDC. "I'll probably stay in public health one way or another," he says. "I'm going to spend a significant portion of my career in backwoods, dirty places trying to stop diseases that I don't like. That includes all of them...
...there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust," wrote James Madison back in 1788, "so there are other qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form." Madison bet on that. Perhaps it is time to reaffirm the belief that there still is sufficient virtue among us for citizens to play a leading role in government...
Fortunately for the industry, higher-priced microcomputers have not succumbed to the price cutting that has bedeviled the bottom portion of the market. Apple and IBM continue to sell full-price personal computers ($1,500 to $4,000) as fast as they can ship them. Even among the low-end companies there have occasionally been flashes of rational pricing strategy. Timex, for example, has systematically reduced its prices on the Timex Sinclair 1000 to help clear the way for more powerful and more expensive models due later this year...