Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balanced according to location, type of store and local sales volume. The group includes dozens of independent shops and mini-chains, the two largest U.S. booksellers (B. Dalton and Walden) and one middle-sized national chain (Brentano's). Each participating retailer has RICHARD WOOD agreed to furnish a portion of its weekly sales figures to our data-processing department, which maintains strict confidentiality about the numbers. Dessauer then worked out a formula that assigns a statistical value to each store, reflecting its representative role in the sample. Figures for the two giant chains, for example, are weighted to approximate...
...what had happened to money raised by the Pauline Fathers for a national shrine. The reporters traveled to 17 states and four foreign countries and ran up nearly $100,000 in expenses. They finally loosed an 18-part, 40,000-word series alleging that the order squandered a substantial portion of $20 million in charitable donations, loans, investments and bond proceeds. The series had the temerity to suggest that officials of the Roman Catholic Church including Pope John Paul II had engaged in a cover-up-a charge that brought angry denunciations from Catholic pulpits and, in a few cities...
Parrella reportedly collapsed and lost consciousness during the indoor portion of the fraternity's initiation rites. Delta Kappa members called the campus police after an undetermined period of time, and campus police administered oxygen and called an ambulance...
...last week stories spread that he was selling silver in Europe, and traders interpreted that as a signal that he was running out of cash. Then Bunker, Herbert and their associates offered to sell billions of dollars worth of bonds in Europe to be backed by a "substantial portion" of the estimated 200 million oz. of silver they hold. These bonds would pay a low rate of interest (estimated at 8%). One theory, advanced by Metals Dealer Andrew Racz, is that they were trying to raise money at low cost to invest in higher yielding (15%) U.S. Treasury bills...
...months of her job demanded an acute awareness of the implications of even minor decisions coupled with a firm resolve to get the department off on the right foot. As the newest kid on the block, Hufstedler would have to hold her ground, ready to fight for her portion of the federal turf--money and manpower that other agencies would not relinquish without a struggle. Meanwhile, she had to avoid getting tangled up in the nuances of bureaucratic affairs that threatened to ground her well-laid plans...