Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With popular mandate in hand, Aquino is now well-positioned to begin extending her authority. The center, the largest portion of the population, is behind her. But only 60 percent of her own armed forces voted in favor of the draft constitution; if she cannot increase her popularity within the military the threat of further coup attempts will continue to loom ominous. On the other hand, if she cannot control the Communist insurgency she may well lose popular support...
...certain that European governments can quickly generate a sharp rise in domestic consumption merely by pouring more money into their economies. A portion of industrial capacity must be redirected from manufacturing products for export to satisfying local demands, and that takes time. Warned Board Member Guido Carli, former governor of the Bank of Italy: "I have doubts that in the short term it is possible to restructure the economies of countries like Germany and Italy, which for so many years have been export oriented...
Less than 10 percent of Harvard undergraduates are Black while the portion of tenured Blacks in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is even smaller. Efforts to increase Black enrollment and faculty hirings routinely meet with rousing approval. The problem is, though, that the numbers never change...
...Governor of California, Reagan built a strong administration, saw the state budget double and, says Wills, "committed the very sin he inveighed against -- government." The same imbalance of reality and myth continues during the presidency, which takes up the last and weakest portion of a 41- chapter book. Here Wills' cinematic thesis tends to fade out. "What is Star Wars," he asks rhetorically, "but another, more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative...
While all other areas scramble for a piece of the college skiing pie, it's still Killington that has the largest portion. More than 6000 students have spent one of the last four weeks at Killington's annual skifest. Sponsored by Miller Lite and Chevrolet, the festival has everything from skier obstacle course races to '60s and '70s revival parties. And, whether or not there's anything from the '70s that deserves to be revived, the kids seem to have fun, to drink a lot of beer and to ski a little on the side...