Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old minimum drinking age to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths. Though Reagan has long favored setting the drinking age at 21, his turn-around came in his throwing support to a bill passed by the House. The legislation would penalize states with lower drinking ages by withholding a portion of their federal highway funds. The Senate is expected this week to debate a proposal, sponsored by Democrat Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, containing the same punitive measures plus some bonus incentives for states that take additional steps against drunken driving. "This slaughter hurts...
...they would have to give up a large portion of their ICBM force...
...faculty here. Rosovsky has commissioned a report to find out just how correct is the image of the malcontent assistant professor who hasn't a shot in the world at tenure. Is the system fair? And what can Harvard do to make junior faculty, who bear such a large portion of the teaching load here, feel more comfortable? Harvard can also take steps to attract even better junior faculty in the first place. Such a move would help to raise the low number of internal promotions that survive Harvard's tenure process--a process that has been described as tantamount...
...large portion of the senior class reported that they had engaged in some sort of political activity beyond voting. Forty percent of the seniors polled reported that they had worked for a political candidate, one of the most traditional forms of American political activism. Closer to home, 28 percent of seniors reported having been involved with some sort of campus political group while at Harvard and 13 percent said they were involved with a political group during the past year...
...Koppel thinks that, along those lines, "Nightline" succeeds. He notes that Harvard is "taking the whole 20 hours of the crisis game [a portion of which aired as a special 'Nightline' that examined possible action during a nuclear crisis] for educational purposes...