Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear-cut moral issues. Then the paper must often choose between stories of approximately equal "newsworthiness," weighing in such factors as audience appeal. In our case, we take into consideration the fact that the Summer School does not comprise our entire audience, although it does make up a considerable portion of the readership. For that reason we attempt to balance our news coverage between several areas of interest. And, it would appear, it is for this reason that today marks the debut of Summer Times...
...decision, the man squarely in the middle, was Powell, who was never that sure he wanted to be a judge in the first place. Quiet, scholarly, wistful and widely respected for his legal acumen, he agreed in part with two different groups within the court. He accepted a portion of the opinion of the four Justices who upheld the California Supreme Court decision in favor of Bakke: Burger, William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens and Potter Stewart. He also sided in part with the four Justices who decided against Bakke: William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and Byron White. He thus...
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Gerald Ford, cites another benefit: "Because property taxes are a component of the consumer price index, and because California property taxes are such a large portion of the national total, the proposition will cut the index by .2% in December-say, from an inflation rate...
More than ten seniors failed the written portion of the non-honors general examination. These students were then required to take an oral examination. The Board of Examiners voted to fail five of the students...
...with two problems, he says: first, to examine the current General Education program, to discover what if any courses may be transferred into the Core; second, to create new courses, "particularly in areas where we don't have much." Rosovsky defines such areas as the "Social and Philosophical Analysis" portion of the Core, as well as the natural sciences and foreign languages components. Even in the social sciences, Rosovsky sees a need for a great deal of controlled experimentation; of all the courses the Faculty now offers in the social sciences, only one--Economics 10, "Principles of Economics"--"fits squarely...