Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the neighborhood to come up with a plan that was acceptable to people in the immediate area," said Philip Parsons, assistant director for operations at the Fogg. As a result, the English architect revised his plans for the proposed bridge and the University promised to landscape a sizable portion of Broadway...
Some 300 students in the Leverett House towers were evacuated to McKinlock Hall about 11 a.m. yesterday. Students in the 17-story Mather House tower were moved to the low-rise portion of the house about noon. All were allowed to return by 6 p.m., officials in the two houses said...
...Total divestment would be ineffectual because it would result merely in the transfer of stock to other investors. It would be ineffectual because the companies in question conduct only a small portion of their business in South Africa and account for only a small portion of South Africa's total industrial base. It would be ineffectual because in one defiant, symbolic move, Harvard would relinquish its material influence in South Africa...
Even so, the known facts, while hardly comforting, provide no basis for hysteria. AIDS is not wildly contagious: a large portion, possibly even a majority, of the people who have been exposed to the disease will never get it. At highest risk are the most sexually active homosexual men. For people who do not come into close sexual contact with them, Stephen Schultz, assistant commissioner of the New York City health department, offers this moderately comforting summation: "AIDS is not an easy disease to come by. It is hard...
...dividends received from these companies. In fact, the vast majority of the firms in our portfolio do less than one percent of their total business in South Africa. Any profits that are repatriated from from that country and find their way into company dividends make up only a tiny portion of the funds we receive from our equity holdings. Those who feel that even this amount is enough to condemn these stocks have difficult questions to answer. Do they object to students who take jobs with IBM, Ford, Exxon and other companies who do business in South Africa and take...