Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reserves to handle the 21st century demographic dilemma', the idea makes politicians shudder. As a matter of equity and politics, there is little appeal in further increasing a tax whose burden falls most heavily on low-income workers, while the well off escape Social Security taxes on a portion of their earnings and are having their income taxes cut. There is justified concern too that another payroll-tax boost could further delay the economic recovery that would help Social Security more than anything...
...efficiency, but the British point out that they were lucky. They benefited from a contingency plan, formulated in 1978 by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for the speedy commandeering of 300 specific merchant ships from member nations in time of emergency. The British were even luckier that a substantial portion of the Royal Navy was participating in NATO exercises off Gibraltar at the time of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. This meant that a number of vessels, almost certainly including a nuclear submarine, were stocked, manned and ready to sail. It also meant that some of the ships were...
...class report written by Chester W. Hartman '57 and Michael D. Tanzer '57 for their 25th reunion next month. Hartman, presently an urban planner, author and visiting fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. says he is "very cynical about Harvard's professed values." In A portion of the report not included here. Hartman discusses his career as an assistant professor of City Planning in the Graduate School of Design from 1966 to 1970. He says he was not granted lenure because as a radical, he was "a frequent pain to conservative colleagues and to University administrators...
...WHAT MAKES THIS an interesting theory is that Wilber believes that in any given moment, there are several modes of consciousness occurring. As he points out, there is still a substantial portion of the population in the mythical stage. However, there are also three stages reachable today that are higher than the mental-egoic level. The individuals who operate at these levels are usually gurus, saints, philosophers and book reviewers. Closest to mental egoic is the Psychic level, marked by the beginnings of behavior based on transcendence of the rational Intuition becomes dominant. The stock-broker who bases his transactions...
WHILE THE LINES for high-tech video adventures at Elsie's and Tommy's Lunch continued to grow with startling speed this semester, a sizeable portion of the Class of '85 busied itself by devising excuses for not playing the other computer game in town--the College's new quantitative reasoning requirement...