Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeptical over whether universities should exert pressure on other institutions to use our judgments," he said, adding that selling a "vast portion of the University's portfolio will have no practical effect on the South African regime...
...official at the Spanish Consulate in Boston, who asked not to be identified, yesterday confirmed that Carlos would be among the 11 honorands. Such degrees are traditionally awarded to the Commencement speaker during the morning portion of the ceremony...
...ARGUMENT THAT apartheid is a fundamentally disgraceful and despotic system, propped up to a great extent by American computer and military-goods companies, is entirely valid. And the argument that Harvard, as a stockholder in companies which do some portion of their business in South Africa, has a moral obligation to press for desperately needed changes in that country, is equally valid...
...investigation that culminated in De Lorean's arrest in October 1982. Some of the entries in the 28-page handwritten document were dated 1983. "I may have rewritten some of the entries in 1983," the agent explained. "And you destroyed the original?" Weitzman asked. "Yes," replied Tisa, "a portion of them...
THESE PRECARIOUS BALANCES of cleverness and emotion, introspection and detail, work much better in the secondary plot. Seventeen-year-old Tibba Fix's portion overflows with the security of books and imaginary sex surrounding every bright, shy teenager. Her thoughts are full of real objects--food, pianos, imaginary lovers: even her memories of childhood are more poignant than her father's because she remembers real events: slamming doors, a policeman's arrival...