Word: portioning
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...COURSE fills an important gap in the Department's offerings--particularly for concentrators. The peculiar policy of forbidding concentrators from studying both American and modern European history at the same time leaves a major portion of Western civilization a mystery to many concentrators. The introduction of a survey to Western Civilization provides a much-needed corrective...
...Davis company for the tidy sum of $7 million. The University had hoped to purchase the property in an effort to slow overdevelopment in the Square and provide affordable housing for its affiliates, but it bid only $4 million. Although the company promised to devote a portion of its profits to a fund for low-income housing, community leaders lamented the purchase, fearing the traffic and noise the construction and new development would produce...
...Davis company for the tidy sum of $7 million. The University had hoped to purchase the property in an effort to slow overdevelopment in the Square and provide affordable housing for its affiliates, but it bid only $4 million. Although the company promised to devote a portion of its profits to a fund for low-income housing, community leaders lamented the purchase, fearing the traffic and noise the construction and new development would produce...
...Contra Military Commander Enrique Bermudez, however, asserted that the rebels would not lay down their weapons on Nov. 7, nor would they accept an amnesty offered by Ortega. During their meeting with Reagan, the contra leaders proposed that the President secure renewed funding from Congress, then place the military portion of that aid in an escrow account. The money would become available only if Managua broke the cease-fire. Though the Administration refused to commit itself to the suggestion, Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams called it "basically a good idea...
Many Asian Americans come from an educated elite in their native countries. Their children seem to do especially well. Julian Stanley, a Johns Hopkins psychology professor, studied 292 preteen high scorers on the math portion of the SAT, nearly a quarter of them Asian Americans. He found that 71% of the Asian-Americans' fathers and 21% of their mothers had a doctorate or a medical degree, vs. 39% of the fathers and 10% of the mothers of the non-Asians...