Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...represent a portion of the public that is getting smaller and smaller," crowed Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin last week in a stinging gibe at the opposition Labor Party. Indeed, the party of David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, the party that led Israel from the nation's birth in 1948 until Begin's electoral victory in 1977, was in deep trouble. With polls showing the Prime Minister's popularity at its highest point since his conservative Likud coalition came to power, small wonder that Begin was threatening to call early elections that could give...
...history, Palestine at various times fell under the rule of the Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Macedonians, Romans, Turks and finally the British. When the U.N. voted in 1947 to create a Jewish homeland, it decreed that Palestine should be partitioned into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Arab portion included the West Bank. In 1950, however, the territory was annexed by Jordan and in 1967 it was seized by Israel in the Six-Day War after Jordan, committed by a defense pact to help Egypt, entered the conflict. The West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation ever since...
...intensive two-week push to finish the inside work in the first installment of a seven-year, $35-million overhaul of all the Houses has left Lowell and the Standish portion of Winthrop freshly painted and varnished, with new lights and electrical outlets--and a good dose of inconveniences...
...ties to the Department of Defense but does most of its contracting for nuclear projects through the Department of Energy (DOE). With five major laboratories and 13 production-testing plants nation-wide, the DOE supervises warhead and material production, disposal of nuclear waste from defense activities, and a good portion of nuclear research and development...
...beginning of the summer, the Selective Service System estimated that some 8.4 million young men, 93 percent of those eligible, had registered for the draft. While claiming that figure showed high compliance, officials acknowledged that a still higher portion would have to sign up for the system to be equitable, and for routine enforcement to be feasible. So the federal government began to crack down...