Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both residents and some city officials agree that if the council does not pass a rezoning ordinance within the next few months, a significant portion of the Cambridgeport Industrial Area--which for more than two years has been the subject of sharp debate--will be developed without reflecting the concern of the neighborhood...
...realistic view of the facts leaves me feeling that a portion of the moral responsibility inescapably rests on the shoulders of Begin and Sharon. Merely by retaking control of West Beirut, they appointed themselves as guardians of the well-being of the estimated 80,000 Palestinian refugees who remained...
...Harvard receiver who accounted for a good portion of that yardage was tight end Peter Quartararo. He combined with Allard on a 71-yard pass play in the second quarter that brought the ball all the way down to the UMass one yard line, setting up the touchdown that put Harvard ahead to stay. It felt great, Quartararo said, when asked what it was like to be on the receiving end of such a big gain. That's the longest pass play I've even run" It looked at first as if Quartararo would make...
...strong enough that Syrians or Israelis or U.S. Marines would not have to come into his country regularly. He would guarantee that Lebanon no longer would be a launching pad for terrorist acts against Israel or other neighbors of Lebanon. But he had no time to achieve even a portion of his ambitions, and his death brought a new wave of terror to the stricken country of Lebanon...
...cost of high-tech weapons will be staggering. By one estimate, the electronic portion of all military spending will rise from 40.6 percent ($22.7 billion) in 1981 to 47 percent ($106 billion) in 1991. An analyst at Goldman, Sachs and Co. predicts an electronic weapons spending increase of 25 percent by 1985, compared with an overall defense increase of 14 percent...