Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that citizens have a right to expect. Tax and governmental reforms can and must apportion that bill more fairly; to the extent that the taxpayers' revolt is a protest against inequity, it is only too justified. Americans, however, will have to get uised to the idea that a greater portion of the country's wealth must be devoted to the public sector if they are to enjoy clean air, safe streets and better health and education. Paying the bill cannot be made pleasant. By reflecting on the observation of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes that taxes are the price of civilization...
...footage in this re-release adds a taste of horror and a heaping portion of the ridiculous. The plot goes unaltered, but Kong's cinematic character suffers some major blemishes. He eats people--chews on them, anyway--something he never did on daytime television. He chomps on a few native warriors and, during his New York stint, a businessman. He also steps on people. Most unfortunate of all is the woman living several flights down from Ann: Kong pulls her out through her bedroom window, but discovering she's not his girl, drops her--fifteen stories...
...Cambodia to the south," reported the Washington Post on March 5, "the North Vietnamese and Khmer communist forces control the major portion of the border with Thailand...
...exception of the current program of "Revolutionary Development," which was interrupted by the Tet offensive. Governmental control can be produced either by a massive military and administrative presence or by effective local political organization. In the past, forces have been inadequate to provide a substantial presence in a significant portion of the countryside for a significant portion of the countryside for a significant length of time. The current pacification effort was mounted on a scale which dwarfs the earlier ones, but like them it has attempted to achieve security by the extension into the countryside of the military and administrative...
Another Con Ed plan, Steiner said, would be to purchase the entire forest, take the 230 acres it needs for its project and donate the rest to the Palisades Park System, with the University retaining research rights. In this way, the University would gain financially without losing a large portion of its land...