Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also deterring students from the sciences is the threat of cut-throat premeds. The image of pre-meds dominating the upper portion of curves can be very intimidating...
...exceptional because of her coolness under pressure," sailing Coach Ben Cesare says. "She's calm and collected, and in sailing that's crucial. She has a goodly portion of innate ability and she's started with the things that are harder to teach...
...could make us feel better about ourselves when we were not, in fact, any better. Jackson is right. The gap between rich and poor has expanded under Reagan, and it has become commonplace to find homeless, working families. The portion of the population that lives under the poverty level grew from 11 percent in 1980 to 13.6 percent in 1987; the percentage of children under the poverty level jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent in the same period...
Virtually instantaneous travel leads to the idea of wormhole as time machine. If it were somehow possible to move one end of a wormhole at nearly the speed of light, general relativity dictates that time at that end would slow down, and that portion of the tunnel would then be younger than the other end. Anything moving from the faster-aging end of the wormhole to the slower would essentially go backward in time. The mode of travel, however, could be nothing like the mechanical time machine, complete with saddle, envisioned by H.G. Wells. It is hard to conceive...
...will coordinate the buying and selling of used textbooks and take a small portion of the profits to help fund its programs...