Word: portioning
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...times the energy supplied by the largest existing accelerators It would also take at least 10 years to build and at a cost of approximately $1 billion is well out of range of any private organization and would have to be built by the Federal government, consuming a sizeable portion of the nation's budget for basic research...
When Congress slashed federal spending by $13 billion last week, the largest portion was $6.8 billion in costs saved in Medicare, the nation's health-insurance program for the elderly and disabled. Despite the size of the cuts, however, they were more a matter of bitter medicine than of major surgery, with doctors and patients sharing the burden...
Since 1948, Washington has given more than $28 billion to Israel, just over half in grants. To alleviate Israel's debt burden, the U.S. Congress is planning to turn the $1.7 billion military portion of this year's aid package, half in loans, into an outright grant of $ 1.4 billion. But Israelis are getting increasingly concerned that such financial dependence could compromise their sovereignty. Israeli Finance Ministry officials, for example, meet frequently with U.S. Government officials to discuss their economic problems. "We are losing our independence," complains Gad Yaacobi, a Labor member of the Knesset...
...prices ranging from 75? for a 4-oz. soft-whipped portion to $2.49 for a hard-packed pint, Tofutti is selling briskly from pushcarts and at custard shops and specialty stores almost all the way across the country. Strangely, it has not caught on yet in Southern California, normally a hotbed of food fads. But Tofutti is moving smoothly at chic Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and at Bloomingdale's in New York City. Haagen-Dazs, the designer-ice cream folks, will begin nationwide distribution to retailers later this month. On Wall Street, stock in Mintz's Tofu Time...
Daniel goes on, in the most entertaining portion of the book to describe all the American presidents he has known. He helpfully points out that he has known a fourth of all the American presidents, humbly adding that "that doesn't necessarily mean that they knew...