Word: portioning
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...Government to reduce spending on certain programs, such as food stamps and Medicaid, under which benefits are now guaranteed by law; and a "reconciliation" bill. This last would set a limit on fiscal 1982 nonmilitary spending, about $50 billion below the $544 billion proposed by Jimmy Carter; the defense portion of the budget Reagan may increase by $24 billion, to $220 billion. The reconciliation bill would require approval by only three or four committees; if it passes, the many other committees that later vote money for specific programs would be required to stay under the overall ceilings. Whether congressional leaders...
Preserving parity will be difficult enough. The balance of strategic forces is already being eroded, principally by the U.S.S.R.'s ongoing ICBM buildup. For some years Western experts have been concerned that the land-based portion of the American strategic deterrent-1,052 Minuteman and Titan II missiles in underground silos-might soon be susceptible to a surprise first strike by the Soviet Union's own increasingly accurate, destructive and numerous land-based warheads. Such a pre-emptive blow, if successful, would seriously weaken the ability of the U.S. to retaliate with iCBMs against Soviet military targets...
...holders of gold are selling the metal out of fear that it now faces a long slide. The U.S. Treasury estimates that 14,000 to 16,000 tons of gold, worth about $240 billion at current prices, are in private hands worldwide. If the goldbugs dump only a small portion of their holdings and buy dollars, that transaction can have a very large impact on both the price of gold and the value of the American currency...
...precociously talented in mathematics. But differences in mathematical aptitude among boys and girls in the tested samples were hard to ignore. Administering the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to seventh and eight-graders with observed ability in mathematics. Stanley found that boys perform on part with girls on the verbal portion, but do much better on the math segment. The largest differences were between the highest scoring boys and the highest scoring girls, and, in each of the six talent searches between 1972 and 1979, the top performer...
...governance and funding portion of the report has also been greeted with disapproval by some Third World students, particularly undergraduate political organizations...