Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...block away from Leverett House stands a church-owned parking lot which the University plans to lease to build student dormitories. Adams House Co-Master Jana Kiely proposed that Harvard lease the land, satisfy its own housing needs, and then set aside a portion for homeless families and a center for socially concerned students...
...charged that Harvard may have tampered with the vote count in the election. Midway through the ballot-collecting process for the election--after the controversy had intensified--Harvard hired a Boston accounting firm, Coopers and Lybrand, to count the ballots. But the University had already received and opened a portion of the ballots, prompting the complaint that the count may have been skewed...
...Security represents a major portion of our budget for the 350th," said Thomas W. Stephenson '37, general secretary of the 350th celebration. He declined to give a specific figure...
...giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that it would split into two companies. The Kraft portion will retain its name and virtually all of the food lines, including processed cheeses and salad dressings. The other, still unnamed firm will make Tupperware and electrical appliances. And Chicago's Beatrice Foods (1985 sales: $11.8 billion) has agreed to sell some $2.5 billion worth of subsidiaries, including Playtex intimate...
...right border? Will the property end up in the wrong hands? The questions are well worth pursuing to their odd conclusions. Rival thrillers may offer a more glamorously seedy cast, but name another book that ends by giving its readers a jolly good cross-country ride -- and a portion of Baked Alaska...