Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRIO OF DIRECTORS first became aware of Kazem's story in April. 1980, when they saw him interviewed on a television talk show. In the short interview, a small portion of which appears at the opening of the film. Kazem Ala told of the tortures he had both witnessed and experienced. At one point, though visibly shaken and upset, he continued o recount horrors he had seen (among them a story about a mother forced to watch while her infant son had his throat cut), explaining that "I have a duty to say this." And in Kazem Ala's confession...
...seasoned press corps, for whom Brady, through his wit and warmth, had become more of a joyous friend than a mere professional colleague. For five hours, surgeons working with the aid of a microscope performed a delicate craniotomy, lifting off the top of his skull to remove a significant portion of his right frontal brain lobe, which, among other functions, controls motor activity on the body's left side. When the operation was over, Brady was still alive and slowly regaining consciousness. Said his relieved surgeon, Dr. Arthur Kobrine...
...Kuhn, professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, yesterday called the new half-course requirement "a commendable realization on the part of my colleagues that the world is round." He added, however, that the revision of the tutorial "impoverishes it by reducing it to a small portion of human experience...
Braswell said, "The math portion of the test is not intended for math professors or graduate students, but rather for the general student. Its function is to measure aptitude--the ability to deal with quantitative concepts...
Vandals have hampered the efforts of five anonymous Law School students who distributed leaflets this week encouraging students to request a refund for the portion of their health service fee used to pay for abortions...