Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Chicago and Continental Illinois in Chicago, and Citicorp, Chemical, Chase Manhattan, Manufacturers Hanover, Morgan Guaranty and Bankers Trust in New York City. Together they have $54 billion on loan to Latin America and the Caribbean. That represents a disturbing 157% of the banks' capital, which is the portion of their assets that belongs to the institutions themselves and their shareholders, rather than depositors. In a more limited way, dozens of regional banks, including Milwaukee's First Wisconsin Corp., National Bank of Detroit and Bank of Boston, have strayed into the foreign-loan field. First Wisconsin, for example...
Harvard has its own 12-member Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) which serves basically the same role as Radcliffe's advisory committee. Although South Africa-related questions make up-only a small portion of the issues addressed by the ACSR, they have attracted the most attention...
...more than two thirds of Radcliffe's $30 million annual budget goes straight to Harvard, to cover women's tuition, room and board, and financial aid. Although Harvard reserves a portion of the room and board money for the Radcliffe-owned Quadrangle Houses, Radcliffe still has final approval on capital improvements that cost more than $100,000, each as the upcoming renovation of North, Cabot and Currier Houses...
...Reagan Administration, which prides itself on keeping Government out of people's lives, made a distinctly paternalistic proposal last week. The Department of Health and Human Services suggested that a portion of welfare recipients' monthly checks under the Aid for Dependent Children program (A.F.D.C.) be earmarked for rent payment, ensuring that landlords will get their money. The proposal, proponents feel, would make welfare tenants more attractive to landlords and cut down on the eviction rate...
...Scot visited London and spent his days gaping at sights and groveling for favor from potential wealthy patrons, and his evenings copulating beneath London Bridge or lying in bed suffering the ravages of venereal disease. But, as Brady strives to make clear, Boswell's rapacious libido represented only a portion of the make-up of a man whose life also included a vibrant spectrum of people, events, pressures, pleasures and misfortunes...