Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent Saturday night, a larger-than-average crowd of 4392 saw the Mud Hens crush Charleston, 8-1. It's the kind of thrashing Toledo is more used to receiving, mired as they are this season in eighth and last place. A sizeable portion of the crowd came great distances to see the Minnesota Twins' top farm team smash the Cleveland Indians of the future...
Housing Subsidies. Only 162,500 subsidized housing units will be started next year, vs. the 176,000 that most House Democrats would have provided and the 225,000 under current law. Also, the portion of the rent that tenants pay will be increased over the next five years to equal 30% of their incomes...
...television news bears a special burden when it oversimplifies. Michael J. Robinson, professor of politics at Catholic University, has found that a sizable portion of the television-news audience reads no newspapers or magazines and learns whatever it knows of events from television alone. Some estimate this group at 20% to 30% of all television-news watchers. These are people at the lower end of the scale, economically and educationally. Before the advent of television news, this group was not much interested in news at all and was both stable in its opinions and passive in its political behavior. Robinson...
...volatile "pass-along" market, almost anybody who buys coke can also be a dealer, "cutting" or adulterating his supply and then selling a portion at a tidy profit. A number of young professional people add $10,000 to $20,000 to their annual incomes-tax free-by dealing coke. Steve, a young California lawyer who sold marijuana to put himself through law school, now has a small, discreet cocaine business. Says he: "I started selling some to close friends because I couldn't afford to buy it for my wife and myself. We found a way to beat inflation...
...Banks will be permitted on Dec. 3 to create l.B.F.s that will be freed of the key regulations that govern U.S. institutions, namely minimum reserve requirements and limits on the level of interest that they can pay. The old system, for example, required banks to keep a portion of deposits, say 8%, in reserve with the Federal Reserve, regardless of whether the deposits came from domestic or foreign sources. On a foreign deposit of $1 million, $80,000 would have to be kept with the Fed, leaving the bank with only $920,000 to lend...