Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other business, CUE members discussed pass/fail grading options, which were recently brought into question by several proposals to revise the College's honor requirements. After citing statistics that appeared to disprove fears that the option was being abused by a significant portion of students, the Committee members agreed to recommend to the Faculty Council that the current pass/fail rules remain unchanged...
...could occur by curbing the rate of growth in military spending and holding it, let us say at an arbitrary five percent. If we are able to influence the Federal Reserve Board to bring the real rate of interest back where it belongs we could automatically reduce a substantial portion of the deficit by reducing the amount that we must pay annually on debt service. This year we are paying approximately just a little over $100 billion on debt service on interest to loans. That's $100 billion wasted so far as budget is concerned. It doesn...
...experiences." Adds Dutka: "He seemed to enjoy this break from the solitude of his typewriter. The two hours he had originally agreed to stretched into three." As he began supervising the cover package in New York, Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, once a television producer himself, screened a large portion of The Winds of War and assessed the context in which it was made. Says Porterfield: "Behind this epic show is an epic competition among the networks for a shrinking share of the audience." Associate Editor Richard Corliss's story analyzes that competition and explores where television is headed. Contributing...
...year and $10 billion more than would be collected under present tax rates. The extra $10 billion would be provided primarily by increases in Social Security payroll taxes that have been recommended by a bipartisan reform commission and a new plan to make workers pay income taxes on a portion of the medical insurance premiums that employers pay for them...
...numbers by which the networks measure their power-ratings, share points, Homes Using Television, demographics and the rest of the adspeak lexicon-are confusing and conflicting, but few network executives can take solace in them. The networks' portion of the total viewing audience has fallen from more than 90% in 1977 to 78% today, and a further drop of 8 to 14 points is expected by 1990. That is almost a quarter of the total market in twelve years. CBS, the prime-time champ since 1980, saw its 1982 ratings fall 5% from the year before; ABC lost...