Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portion of Harvard students, of whom I am deeply respectful, has found the answer to this question in social service work, notably through the Phillips Brooks House. They have chosen to break through the insularity by putting their hands and feet where their mouths are--in the public schools of Cambridge, in the homes of in dochinese refugees, in the streets of Boston's poorest neighborhoods...
...million in 1984, down from a 1980 peak of $894 million. One reason for the poor performance was that the company's $8 billion debt, largely a legacy of the Geneen years, generated an annual interest bill of more than $600 million. In addition, ITT received a large portion of its revenues in foreign currencies. Profits were depressed because these currencies weakened against the dollar...
...courtroom studded with ten television monitors, Burt tried to build his case by contrasting the documentary as it was aired with CBS's outtakes, the portions of filmed interviews that were cut from the program. For example, in the documentary, Wallace asks Westmoreland, "Was President Johnson a difficult man to feed bad news about the war?" Westmoreland's answer strongly implies that the general had a motive for being less than frank with the President: "Well, Mike, you know as well as I do that people in senior positions love good news. Politicians or leaders in countries are inclined...
...committee expects that income will equal or even surpass the cost, as it did last time. The sources: ticket sales, souvenirs ranging from cuff links and tie-bar sets ($25) to porcelain eagles ($1,750), and $2.2 million from advertising on the televised portion of the Inaugural gala (ABC). But some cost-cutting efforts have backfired. Seeking 200 performers for public events, a committee consultant placed an ad in a trade publication for nonunion, "clean-cut, All-American types," to work for expenses but no wages. Several unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, which Reagan headed more than three decades...
...self- consciously lavish example she set. Democratic Socialite Oatsie Charles, an arbiter of Washington taste, was pleased too. "The White House sets the tone for everything that goes on here," says Charles. "It was nice to know that she cared." But many newspaper editorialists and a large portion of the citizenry thought the extravagance unseemly. "She was one of the best single targets for the opposition's attacks about 'fairness' and special interests," says a White House strategist. Thin-skinned Nancy Reagan was wounded by the criticism, especially since the White House really was badly in need of repairs. "That...