Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic purpose of the tour is to make trends and to share music," said HRO tour manager Michael B Potter '84. "Given the international situation the way it is today, the Soviet portion of the trip is the most important," he committed...
...control through proxies with the stockholders, and when Pickens lost in December, Gulf foolishly figured it had won. Pickens would have had somehow to convince half of Gulf's stockholders to choose him as a director, and the company doubted he would be able to with his small portion of the outstanding stock. They relaxed...
While the effort reporting and other A-21 requirements seem preposterous to Lang, he objects to them chiefly because they occupy so much time and subject researchers to unreliable audits in the future. Repeated studies of research show that only a miniscule portion of federal grants are improperly spent, Lang says, estimating that the monitoring process consumes nearly half of these funds. "Out of each research dollar, 50 percent goes to guarantee that .025 percent is not imporperly used," Lang says...
Justice Brennan, in his partial dissenting opinion, writes for the minority . "The Court's concentration on the Bankruptcy Code and its refusal to accommodate that stature with the NLRA is particularly incongruous since the analysis (of the unanimous portion of the decision) rests almost exclusively on the recognition that the two statutes must be accommodated." The Bankruptcy Code, of course, makes no distinction between labor and other creditors. The court followed the Code when it contradicted the labor laws on unfair practices, and made no special accommodation for labor...
...were some of his contemporaries, but the singer who really knocked Jackie Wilson out was Al Jolson. Jackson may dance like Baryshnikov straddling a jackhammer, move like a street blood steeped in Astaire and t'ai chi, sing like an angel on a soul-food bender, but a fair portion of his personal taste and his musical inspiration comes from the sort of glitzy places where soul seldom strays. One of his favorite things is My Favorite Things, sung by Julie Andrews, raindrops on roses, warm woolen mittens and all. He loves the Beatles, and he also loves Gordon MacRae...