Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same period. Over the last ten years, the share of total University income provided by the endowment declined from 20.9 per cent to 19.5 per cent. Similarly, the proportion of total income provided by gifts and government grants also declined. Only miscellaneous and student sources of income increased their portion of the budget burden during the last decade. Of all the categories, student fees is the most flexible source of income, and students have felt the crunch in the form of tuition hikes above the rate of inflation. As a result, students supplied 29.1 per cent of University income...
Although a significant portion had the benefit of a prep school education before attending Harvard, there was a difference between the students of this Class and those of previous Harvard generations. Some had goals more specifically-defined than those of others, but only a few could say with certainty that they intended to become eminent research scientists, or an editor of a major metropolitan newspaper, but most had the idea that Harvard would be the place for accomplishment and challenge...
...most familiar advance dates from 1967, when surgeons performed the first bypass operation on a patient with a coronary artery blockage. In the procedure, a vein taken from the patient's leg is grafted to the aorta and to the unobstructed portion of the coronary artery, thus detouring blood around the blocked area...
...road opinion was also scandalized. "The Israeli government has suddenly evaporated," commented Columnist Amnon Dankner in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz. "It is hovering over the earth like some pinkish cloud out of which there rains down on us every week Aridor's latest portion of manna." Nonetheless, the manna was fattening the average wage earner's buying power and providing for goods that were previously far too expensive...
Later that day Radio Viloco called a meeting for the next morning in Curawara, the central hamlet of the valley. The approximately 5000 campesinos of this region speak Aymara, an Indian language, as a first language. They save a portion of their agricultural produce for their own consumption and carry the rest to Viloco and to La Paz for sale in the urban markets...