Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After lengthy debate, the council shot down a proposal to case its access to unallocated student activity funds. Its constitution requires the council to place the unused portion of the fund, which is generated annually by a $10 charge on every student's term bill, into the following year's budget...
...maximize the effect of the strong dollar by purchasing a London-originated round-the-world fare and buying a Miami-London ticket on a carrier like People Express for $258. You will then have a saving of more than $500 and still have the unused Miami- London portion of your ticket left. You can't cash it in, but you can use it any time within a year...
...that system to beat the test. A representative midrange SAT question is answerable by most bright students, eminently flunkable by slow ones, and something between for the middling muddler, whom the Review nicknames Joe Bloggs. Thus the square root of 4 is no good for the middle-to-hard portion of an SAT, since anyone may guess the right answer to be 2. But the square root of 9 is perfect: easy if you know your algebra (the answer: 3), hard if you don't, and about a 50% guessing shot for Joe, whose chances may be reduced...
...liar catching watch facial muscles closely because some muscle movements are almost impossible for most people to fake. For example, individuals who feel real grief will move the inner corners of their eyebrows upward. Only about 10% of the time, Ekman's experiments show, can people deliberately move this portion of the eyebrows. Another instructive facial slip: the so-called squelched expression, the fleeting appearance of a hidden emotion, followed by a rapid adjustment back to the desired look...
PETER GAMMONS' COLUMN, "On Baseball," is perhaps the most consistently praised portion of the Boston Globe's vaunted ports section. The broad understanding Gammons brings to the game is constantly embellished by his uncanny abilities as an investigative reporter in uncovering salient facts. But for all the applause Gammons receives for his reporting and subsequent analysis, his prose remains flawed...