Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gentle 43½°) was brought about by the premature death of the pharaoh, which forced the workers to hasten completion of the pyramid. Mendelssohn, however, believes that the builders at Dahshûr, hearing of the avalanche at Medûm, prudently reduced the angle of the unfinished portion of their own pyramid to a safe 43½°. In fact, Mendelssohn notes, Egyptian pyramid builders did not return to the more dangerous 52° angle until many years later, when they had devised better techniques for construction of the outer mantle...
...first Administration case on Friday involved James P. Stodder '72, who was accused of helping disrupt the "Counter Teach-In," "principally" by throwing objects toward the stage. Evidence against him consisted of a portion of the United Press International (UPI) film of the incident that showed him making a throwing motion toward the stage from the back of Sanders...
...personal stationery and a porcelain dinner plate inscribed "Kanzlei des Führers" (Führer's Chancellery), which Hope acquired while entertaining troops in Germany in 1945. The West Point archives, says the count, are also searching for relics. "Though I personally know only a very small portion of our regular customers," adds Klenau, "I'm convinced that they are not collecting for political reasons. I look at them as affluent, elderly, admittedly somewhat peculiar types who have an urge to get close to history...
...exchange, which regards itself as the citadel of U.S. capitalism, had been reluctant to accept. The Big Board had insisted that member brokers abide by a fixed minimum commission schedule. Last week it bowed to an order from the Securities and Exchange Commission and abolished fixed commissions on the portion of any trade in excess of $500,000. Such trades account for about 5% of N.Y.S.E. members' commissions but are clustered among the major houses, including Salomon Bros., Oppenheimer and Goldman, Sachs...
...classification of the city of Bell Gardens as "low income-stagnant" is partially correct. We are low income; we do have a large transient population. A large portion of our population is made up of nonskilled workers. We have a lot of room for improvement after the years of neglect that preceded our incorporation as a city...