Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Taxes will have to be paid on a portion of the Social Security benefits of anyone whose income plus one-half of their pension exceeds $25,000 a year. For married couples filing jointly, the base amount will...
Harvard's representatives have decided not to participate in next week's Boston-area campus "Week of Resistance" to the Solomon Amendment, a congressional proposal which links federal financial aid to draft registration, because plans for the college's portion of the events have fallen through, organizers said last week...
Some recalcitrant states, in reply, charged that DOT was sloppy in selecting the routes for the interim list. According to the New Jersey transportation department, DOT opened to 40-ton trucks a portion of Route 9 in the state that includes a bridge currently posted with a twelve-ton weight limit. The designations will also permit bigger trucks to rumble through the traffic-clogged streets of New York City, Philadelphia, Trenton and other metropolitan areas on their way to delivery terminals...
...consciousness and holocaust, sex and death. But whereas The White Hotel connected these themes with a pulse all its own, Ararat, like the Armenian landscape from which it is drawn, is a much drier work. The tremendous stream of poetry in The White Hotel, the sexually surreal "Don Giovanni" portion as well as the deafening violence of the Babi Yar testimony, collaborated to overwhelm the reader. This sensory overload created a flow or wave of feeling, which after it had receded, left the reader feeling a part of the world which he had just experienced--the world of Freud...
...hunting, dirt-eating, dog-soldiering" typical combat unit known as Charlie Company. They found 54 veterans, flung far and wide since their return to the States at the end of the 1960s. They were postmen, statisticians, woodcutters, drunkards, narcotic detectives who had never before been asked about the Vietnam portion of their lives. Unlike with the country's earlier, more popular battles, nobody had cared. People wanted to forget...