Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic planner and administrator, is particularly attuned to the rising consumer demands in his country, and in the countries Eastern Europe. He probably feels that the mounting expense of aiding the anti-American forces is not justified by the immediate results. More important, it occupies a significant portion of the Soviet budget which he no doubt thinks could be better spent on domestic priorities...
Faced with the suggestion that their work is far too costly, spacemen are quick to point out that in any event, lunar funds are only a small portion of the national budget; they are not taken out of money meant for medical research or antipoverty drives. The truth is that, for all the intricate problems that must be met before man gets to the moon, planning the trip is far easier than organizing to fight poverty. For space, scientists can draw up a logical program; they have clear goals, few variants. It is lack of technique, not lack of money...
Neustadt came to feel that the value of the visits would be seriously jeopardized if critics of the visitors were able to force some sort of open and acrimonious confrontation. But the concern and, in many cases, disgust with which a substantial portion of the University community viewed the war in Vietnam threw a monkey wrench into the Institute's delicately wrought design...
...incendiary bomblets, which fell first in large clusters, then broke apart at 8,000 ft. and burst into flame as they plunged into a jungle already dried tinder-brown in places by chemical defoliants. For hours afterwards, dense smoke rolled 15,000 ft. into the air above yet another portion of the Viet Cong's rapidly shrinking sanctuaries...
...This portion of the act, an ugly monument to Congressional suspicion of scholarship, should follow the way of the disclaimer. Requiring young people whose education is supposed to be vital to the national defense to prove they are law-abiding and loyal can only lead to mutual distrust. If the government can't demonstrate some faith in students, they are not likely to show much confidence in return...