Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disputing their father's will, saying that the trustees, Auld and Real Estate Developer Milton Weilenmann "brought undue influence" on a sick man to have the new plane completed. The heiresses declare that the risks of the venture are too great for their mother to use their portion of the inheritance...
Last week the chemical that made that happy event possible got formal approval from the Food and Drug Administration for widespread use by expectant women. Calling it "the first safe and effective drug approved to treat premature labor," the federal agency said that ritodrine could help delay a sizable portion of the 300,000 live births a year that occur prematurely (any time before the 36th week of pregnancy...
Gray stresses that the afternoon portion of what most people refer to as "Commencement" is really the annual meeting of the AHA. "After degrees are given in the morning, the University stops and the AHA takes over," Gray says, adding, "The morning Commencement ceremony is a serious, inspiring occasion. The tenor we aim for in the afternoon is a happy occasion...
...students want a moratorium on hourlies and presentation of new material during the last half of Reading Period. They say students should have at least some portion of Reading Period free to review and assimilate course material...
...Frank McLaughlin says he would favor pre-Christmas exams, calling them especially beneficial for the freshmen who would enter the bulk of a long season with their first set of exams behind them. McLaughlin says athletes would undoubtedly have to return during that mid-winter break to play a portion of their schedule...