Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governance portion of the report, for example, largely ignores the role of campus Third World organizations in running the foundation. In the funding portion of the report, moreover, undergraduate minority organizations are told they will have to pay for their own programs and activities. Although the committee advocates that the University pay for an administrator to help raise funds for the foundation (who would face substantial competition from the $250 million capital fund drive), it does not assume financial responsibility for the heart of minority culture on campus, the undertakings of Third World student organizations...
...giddy female lead. Shirley MacLaine spends a large portion of this movie eating, quite a bit of additional time laughing at jokes no one else (at least in the audience) understands, and the remainder making love to a carpenter in a flannel jacket who lost his first wife when she ate produce from their farm poisoned by government herbicides (his life story is the humorous high-water mark of this film...
...will not do what we say we will do." The suggestion: an Algerian escrow account, into which the U.S. would deposit $2.5 billion of the Iranian assets now held by the Federal Reserve, along with approximately $4 billion held by U.S. banks abroad. This fund would comprise that portion of U.S.-controlled Iranian assets which are free of all claims and attachments. The Iranians would be able to draw on the account as soon as the hostages were released. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher cautiously told reporters last week that the latest plan "will enable the two governments-American...
...evidence, the prosecutors flashed grisly pictures of the bruised corpse of former Coal Mining Minister Zhang Linzhi on a large screen in the courtroom and called two witnesses to testify that Jiang Qing had ordered Red Guards to deal with him as a counterrevolutionary. Then, in the "debate" portion of the trial, which allows a modicum of defense, Prosecutor Jiang Wen demanded that Mme. Mao be punished in accordance with Article 103 of China's criminal code. It allows the death penalty in cases where "serious harm" has been done to the state...
...kosai-hi has its critics. The government earlier this year proposed to levy stiff taxes on corporate expenditures but then relented under pressure from the business community. Its final solution: tax the portion of kosai-hi that exceeds a corporation's entertainment expenditures in the previous year...