Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kidneys remove toxic substances from the blood. The drinking of urine will result in reabsorption of these substances. A healthy adult could probably consume a small daily portion of his urine without complication. However, consumption of even a small amount of urine by a person with marginally functional kidneys could lead to uremic poisoning by progressively elevating the blood concentrations of toxic substances. Readers who are willing to "drink up" should know the odds before they toast their health...
...preparing to plunge into a grab bag of nations (Brazil, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, France, Poland and Belgium) with little hope of emerging with a common theme or coherent message. The inclusion of Brazil and Iran ruled out an overall emphasis on human rights, and the European portion made it difficult to bill the exercise as a courtesy call on the Third World...
...bills would not pay a major portion of a student's tuition, but would give a needed financial boost to those paying high tuition fees, thus opening up a wider range of school and college opportunities to students, Skip Priest, an assistant to Packwood, said yesterday...
...even more dramatic discovery. Not far from their first find, they uncovered the fossilized remnants of a 20-year-old female Australopithecus lying in a layer of sediment 3 million years old. Unlike most other fossils of early man ?a tooth here, a bone fragment there, occasionally a portion of a skull?this one comprised a good part of the skeleton...
...designed to ride on 12 miles of track buried five feet below the ground in "hardened" tunnels. The missile would be randomly moved around on its tracks and have the capacity to be launched from any point within the tunnel. Since the Soviets would never know what portion of the trench to target, this feature of the MX would insure the ability of a substantial portion of our land-based missiles to weather a Soviet first-strike...