Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1960s, after one detergent ingredient had been found to foam as readily on rivers and lakes as in Laundromats, the industry converted to another chemical. Right now it is searching for an alternative to phosphates. One possibility is a chemical called NTA which can replace a significant portion of the phosphates in a box of detergent. Even so, some experts agree that the only true solution is the construction of "tertiary" treatment sewage plants that would reduce phosphates from all sources to harmless...
...claims that the Communist war effort in the South requires a volume of supplies so small compared with the North's capacity to deliver that it cannot be effectively shut off. Sealing off Haiphong, he also contends, would not have been a decisive move, since only a small portion of vital war supplies arrives through that port...
...which could offer important clues to the lunar interior-may be considerably stronger than had been believed. Palmer Dyal, one of the magnetometer experimenters, had an esoteric, but speculative explanation: after a period of vulcanism, the moon cooled more rapidly than scientists had heretofore thought, thus preserving a larger portion of its primordial magnetic field...
...unusual in several respects. It is one of the few modern American fortunes of such size not derived principally from oil. Well over $100 million came from real estate speculation conducted by astute agents after Joe Kennedy had more or less retired from an active business role. Another substantial portion-perhaps $100 million if the managers have followed the rule of thumb applied in allocating other large fortunes-is in tax-exempt securities. The only corporate entity to which the fortune is intimately tied is the family itself. There is no highly visible family business...
...much smaller defense funded portion of the budget which pro-yoked the most discussion among the some 75 people present at the meeting. Several urged that the department move towards reducing the defense contracts...