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Word: portioning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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About three-quarters of the freshman class has visited the Science Center computer room to try passing the computer portion of the Core quantitative reasoning requirement, and nearly 400 have been successful...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: 400 Freshmen Pass Computer Exam | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...years community residents have battled with the developers over the size and nature of the project; last week, most of them pledged to drop their opposition if the builders would agree to trim the size of the shopping mall portion of the project drastically, which locals had feared would attract too much traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Do-It-Yourself | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

Carla C. Munoz '82-1, campus action coordinator of the club, argued that the club should remain neutral "because endorsing Reagan will alienate a large portion of our membership...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Officers Consider Resignation After Republican Club's Vote | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

Waits also spent a good portion of 1979 holed up in a Paris loft, collaborating with artist Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams) on a book of portraits of American heroes, to which Waits has contributed the text. "You know, people like Marlene Dietrich, Mohammad Ali, Meyer Lansky, Pearl Bailey, Jimmy Durante, Adam Clayton Powell...

Author: By Stephen X. Rea, | Title: The Tom Waits Cross-Country Marathon Interview | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...that offer tennis, maid service-and fees of $10,000 or more a month. Poor tipplers get help through Medicaid or at free faculties run by the Salvation Army. But where is the middle-class sufferer to go? Though college-educated professionals or managerial people account for a sizable portion of the nation's estimated 10 million alcoholics, white-collar drinkers traditionally have had to fight their addiction while coping with everyday life, a daunting task even with the aid of groups like Alcoholics Anonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halfway Houses for Alcoholics | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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