Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have focused solely on the text of the speech to prove that Reagan has not changed his positions on the social issues "as if a president, outside of a great national crisis or clear factual evidence, would be likely to do a public about face and antagonize a large portion of his constituency. What they have failed to note is that in reality. Reagan has done little to further these causes. Not even the symbolic value of having a president who supports prayer in public schools and opposes abortion has helped win votes for these positions. That, after...
...practices I don't believe in? If I use a public service, I pay for it. When I buy gas, I pay the tax. When I drive my car, I pay tolls. And even when I've been below the poverty level, I've given some portion of my money to those who have less than me. I feel charity begins at home...
...charge and countercharge it is sometimes hard to remember that this is a very large battle over very small sums. The bulk of the $115 million a week collected by N.C.C. member churches goes to good works, and even in the modest portion of the budgets dealing with political controversy, only a fraction goes to disputed causes. But Theologian Carl EH. Henry, an I.R.D. board member, observes, no doubt accurately, that many Protestants object to helping Marxists with even a single penny: "It's like virginity. You don't lose it in percentages...
...better or worse, this is the scene no viewer of The Meaning of Life will ever wipe out of memory. In it, a grotesquely bloated Terry Jones waddles into a posh eatery and angrily orders at least a double portion of everything on the menu-and a bucket in order that he may conveniently throw up. This he proceeds to do endlessly, finally unwatchably, the while continuing to gorge himself until he literally bursts. It sounds horrible. It is horrible. It is also extraordinarily funny. For the headwaiter, sublimely played by John Cleese, hovers fussily over...
...Salvador Reed, a photographer with the San Francisco Examiner, decided to hail a taxi along with two other journalists to investigate the source of gunfire heard moments earlier. The trio hopped in a cab, and the car moved through the city of San Salvador, heading for the portion of town known as the "combat zone." The buriy Reed noticed that the rear window had been previously shot out and there was a bullet hole in the roof...