Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preliminary court ruling in July had permitted the University to continue with construction of the diesel portion of the plant, pending further court review of the DEQE ruling. Young's final decision, which followed a series of hearings over the past two weeks, reversed the preliminary ruling...
Until recently, that is. Last week, right between the orange juice and the Mather House yolkless specials, just as I was mulling over Ernie Roberts's latest bit of culinary trivia ("Don Zimmer's favorite breakfast: Rustoleum and a large portion of crow"), I turned the page and there they were. Right next to the boxscores. Henry and a soccer ball...
...feel casting is a great portion of the creative input into a movie. Once that's done, the actors have to take over the job of creating...I control it, I give them room. I try to cast people who can draw on their own resources and experiences...or else I go for actors technically competent enough to create characters...
That record, however, is no reason for complacency. The number of reported "near misses" of aircraft in flight has been increasing sharply, to 384 last year-and the safety experts believe that only a small portion of such perilous passings are reported. The overwhelming majority do not involve commercial airliners. But as the San Diego crash illustrates, the loss of life is large when the near miss involving a big passenger jet turns into an actual collision...
Giamatti is in Boston to address a group of Yale alumni. He leans back on the couch, taking a puff on his cigarette. He had hoped to use a portion of his "freshman talk" in his speech, but abandons the plan because it just wouldn't fit. To be sure, whatever he wants to tell alumni contains the same seeds of thoughts, but maybe you can't tell alumni the same things you would a class of freshmen. "The purpose of a budget," Giamatti says, "is not an end in itself." His speech to the alumni will be about choice...