Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their portion of the Arab sultanate of Morocco, the French were having so much trouble with the Arabs that they found it necessary to depose popular Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and to replace him with the ineffective Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. The switch aroused widespread resentment in Spanish Morocco, a resentment which Franco's Fascist radio was not averse to exploiting...
...recommendations were made in accepting a portion of the Council's report on religion. The report emphasized the historical importance of religion, the tradition of religions scholarship, and the sociological role of religion in the development of cultures...
Since its creation in 1951, the Fund for the Advancement of Education has allocated more than $30,000,000 to the attainment of its major objectives. The largest single portion of the Fund's resources has been concentrated on the problem of improving the quality of teaching in secondary schools and colleges. Through two fellowship programs, the Fund has sponsored year-long leaves for more than 1200 selected high-school and college teachers, in order to encourage them to broaden their own knowledge and teaching experience...
...individuals will be saving a smaller portion (5.5%) of their disposable income than they do today (7.7%). But gross private savings (including corporate) will have climbed 33% in the decade, to $62.5 billion, v. $52.8 billion last year. Gross capital investment will also be $62.5 billion in 1960, up a healthy 37% from...
...learned much about easing congestion by lubricating traffic flow with such devices as one-way streets and timed stop lights, but road building helps too. Freeways carry three times as much traffic as ordinary streets, with one-fifth the accident rate. When San Francisco recently opened a 1.3-mile portion of a new freeway, the accident rate on crosshatching streets for two miles on either side dropped...