Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans die of heart attacks or other effects of coronary arteriosclerosis -hardening of the arteries that power the heart's main pumping chamber. Approximately one-fourth of these deaths occur before age 65 and are thus considered premature. Most of these younger victims, as well as a portion of those who are over 65, could have useful, satisfying years added to their lives if their hearts were repaired. Otherwise, even if they survive, they are likely to become cardiac cripples...
...hearings are exposing a band of men who can be identified, charged and convicted for their criminal destruction of the Constitution. The face riots of the past were often much broader in their scope. They indicted the entire white population and plunged a portion of it into spasms of guilt, while another portion merely reacted, true to nature, with further violence and deeper prejudice...
...nerve gas kills so swiftly that inspectors carry live rabbits to warn them (by dying) of any leaks. In 1968, the Army had promised to move or "demilitarize," i.e., to detoxify and destroy, a certain portion of its deadly chemicals. In 1971, it started shipping nerve-gas shells by rail to the East Coast, where they were hauled out into the Atlantic and dumped...
...just as opposed to the de facto segregation in the cities of the North as to the now forbidden legal segregation of the South. Ruling on the system in Denver, the court upheld a lower-court finding that the school board had fostered segregation in a significant portion of the city. Sending the case back to the lower courts for further action, the Justices said that unless the school board can prove it did not practice segregation in mixed neighborhoods, it may be required to integrate the entire system, presumably by busing if necessary...
...exchange his dollars for francs before making the purchase-apparently out of genuine concern that the dollar's price in francs would drop by the minute. A G.I. stationed in West Germany moaned that he could not even accurately budget big outlays like his monthly rent, since the portion of his dollar paycheck needed to cover his mark rental bill has expanded painfully in every recent month...