Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House had lobbied heavily in favor of the legislation. Administration officials said the measure was the most important surviving portion of the energy package President Carter submitted to Congress in April...
Harvard's standard justification for shareholding policies that allow corporations to lend support to white supremacy in Southern Africa does not apply in the AMAX case. Harvard gains solace from rationalizing that Africa operations represent a minute portion of their overall worldwide corporate involvements. Unfortunately, Tsumeb contributed an average of 7 per cent to AMAX's total profits during the 10-year period ending in 1972. Since its formation after World War II, Tsumeb has contributed more than $150 million in tax revenues to South Africa's colonial administration in Namibia...
...black hole can draw matter from a nearby star, perhaps two black holes can draw matter from each other, spewing off enough matter and energy into space to create a new galaxy eventually. Perhaps black holes are God's way of recreating the universe a portion at a time...
...large portion of the book (137 pages mainly consisting of quotes from and about writers) is devoted to buttressing the statements made in the essays. Olsen largely overcomes the problem of disjointedness by carefully organizing and tying these quotes together. She cites famous authors who have suffered "silences"--among them Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Jane Austen--as well as the less well-known, and the selections give on a good sense of the hell a lot of people have gone through for the sake...
...LAST PORTION of Silences Olsen rescues from oblivion Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills by reprinting a larage part of it. Published in an 1861 Atlantic Monthly, this searing story was the first work of American fiction to focus on industrialization and its human cost. Davis's book work was also concerned with "ifs:" she tried to see her subject's lives as they might been not as they were. Tillie Olsen first read Life in the Iron Mills when she was fifteen after buying it "for ten cents in an Omaha junkshop." But the work published...