Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing might was a menace to everybody. Any military assistance by the U.S. would lead to war. I warned that history proved America would not be indifferent to an attack on China. (The next day the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoli Dobrynin, stressed that the China portion of the discussion was not to be treated as social. Brezhnev had meant every word...
...gross and perhaps intentional oversight the student-Faculty Dowling committee formed by John B Fox Jr. dean of the College, had no minority members Because an important and significant portion of the undergraduate population went unrepresented, the Dowling report did not include any provisions to insure that the new government would represent these students and their special needs The constitution committee set out to correct this inadequacy and this proved to be a difficult and time consuming task...
...Reserve Board has no direct control over M-1 but has several indirect means of regulating its growth. For one thing, U.S. law requires banks to keep a portion of their deposits in accounts at the Fed in the form of so-called reserves. By changing what is known as the "reserve requirements," the Reserve Board can determine the amount of money that commercial banks have avail able to lend out to borrowers. On a day-to-day basis, though, the Federal Reserve influences the money supply through "open market operations," or buying and selling Treasury bonds, bills and notes...
...other tournament action yesterday, fifth-seeded Yale nipped fourth-seeded Princeton, 52-51. The Tigers gnawed away at Yale's lead for the last portion of the second half, but the Bulldogs had their victory saved for them when Princeton cager Vickie Wallen missed a 10-ft. jumper with two seconds remaining in the contest...
...they didn't change any basic institutions of our government. Desegregation was the only victory (an achievement that may yet prove transient), and even the civil rights movement was unable to even get a grip on the thornier question of economic rights for minorities. Indeed, the most discouraging portion of The Promise of Disharmony deals with the limits to reform--not only in the 60s but throughout our history. Beginning with the notion that there is "considerable repetition from one creedal passion period to another: the favorite causes of one era tend to reappear in the next." Huntington reaches...