Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard, which switched a large portion of its deposits from Cambridge Trust to the Boston-based New England Merchants National Bank earlier this year, did not testify before the committee, Lewis A. Armistead, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday...
...past, some census takers have hesitated to venture deep into the crowded, big-city neighborhoods in which a significant portion of the minority population lives. According to Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's black mayor, his city has been "cheated out of $11.7 million in federal aid and almost 6,000 jobs" because of the 1970 undercount. Congressional experts estimate that each person overlooked by the census could cost a state as much as $200 in funds from Washington...
...test, Alvin C. Eurich, 77, now president of the nonprofit Academy for Educational Development, decided to give the very same exam to modern Minnesota freshmen. The results, announced last week: the 1978 students did worse than their counterparts of 1928. Only half scored at least 26 on the vocabulary portion of the exam. Worse, only 19% scored above 20 on a speed-reading exam, a standard that nearly half of the 1928 students...
Orren's optimism is tempered by reality. "Chappaquiddick is not something that's going to disappear.... A certain portion of the population will never vote for Kennedy because he doesn't meet their standards of moral rectitude...
...will incur a penalty: they will have to deposit a sum equal to 15% of the additional amount into a special reserve drawing no interest. How to stay within this requirement is entirely up to the lenders. They can refuse to extend additional credit to consumers, cancel the unused portion of existing credit lines, or go ahead and offer more credit, pay the penalty, and pass the cost along to the borrowers. "Secured" loans-those taken out to buy houses, cars, refrigerators and other appliances-will not be affected...