Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes on The Crimson beforeI was a freshman and was at the first comp meetingfreshman week. So, too, was a good portion of myclassmates. Intimidated, I sucked down one or twoof the beers they fed us and made a beeline out ofthe place. I also went to the Lampoon compmeeting and the same thing happened. I was afraidof failure, of not measuring up to snuff at thefamous institutions of the Big H. Afraid that Icouldn't do things well, I chose not to do them atall...
...legislation is designed to prevent 31 million elderly and disabled Americans from being wiped out by the crippling cost of hospitalization. Among other things, the bill provides unlimited free hospital care after a $589 deductible is reached, a $1,400 annual limit on doctor's fees and a portion of outpatient drugs...
...Club, a famous hangout for cigar magnates and their friends, which over the years played host to such renowned lovers of the leaf as Teddy Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and Winston Churchill. The Kahanas have restored the magnificent ballroom on the second floor and are converting the "gentlemen's hotel" portion into office space...
Much cable programming, to be sure, is still a morass of second-rate reruns, cheesy home-shopping shows and other filler fare. But original programming -- often more adventurous than that of the three networks -- is occupying a growing portion of the cable schedule. Pay services like HBO and Showtime have for years produced made-for-cable movies, comedy concerts and other original fare. Now basic cable services are getting into the act as well. The USA Network, once filled largely with creaky reruns, has increased the number of fresh shows dramatically. Lifetime, with a diet of talk and service shows...
...makers to take a safer and more effective approach to their work. Instead of using dead or attenuated bacteria or viruses, they remove from the bug's surface the marker protein, or antigen, that provokes the immune response. Employing gene-splicing techniques, they mass-produce the antigen, or a portion of it, and use it as the prime ingredient of the vaccine...