Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the measures supported by insurance firms is Proposition 104, which would institute no-fault coverage. Another proviso of the initiative: for the portion of any award over $100,000, a lawyer could charge no more than 15%. In response, the state's trial lawyers have banded together to push their own plan, Proposition 100. It rejects limits on legal fees and mandates changes in the law that would result in 15% lower insurance rates...
...serves as a central conduit for the trillions of yen pouring out of Japan in search of bigger, better returns. Last year, when Japan had a trade surplus of $96 billion, its net purchases of foreign securities amounted to $88 billion, up from $4 billion in 1980. The largest portion of that outflow used to go into U.S. Treasury securities, but increasingly the Japanese are buying foreign stocks and bonds. They are also acquiring overseas companies and real estate. And no matter what type of play a Japanese investor wants to make, Nomura stands ready to help...
...represents the lower-class, largely Black citizens who see the drug problem arising from economics. The other speaks for the wealthy, largely white portion of the country whose safety is threatened by drugs and drug-related crime. But such distinctions are usuallly glossed over when the drug problem is put up for discussion. Just the other day, two prominent experts on the drug epidemic appeared on a local television show and concurred that drug use was not a political problem, but rather a "people problem...
...that the sale of sex did indeed flourish in a time when the Pope condemned everything from fornication to chastity. In an era in which the Church dictated what sexual positions pregnant women under the age of 25 could assume, the women of the night were the hardest working portion of the labor force in the cities and towns. Rossiaud analyzes the reasons for prostitution's longevity despite prohibition's on its existence...
...upset by scenes in which Christ (Willem Dafoe) is shown as tormented and self-accusatory ("I lied, I am afraid. Lucifer is inside me") and in which he persuades Judas (Harvey Keitel) to betray him because it is God's plan. But what has them fuming is a portion of a final dream sequence -- meant to be Christ's hallucination while on the cross -- in which Jesus is shown briefly engaged in sexual relations with Mary Magdalene, played by Barbara Hershey...