Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind ... [The] peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence; the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority...
Putney Swope. Robert Downey's film has, with age, lost quite a bit of its bite, but it's still entertaining. It was made at a time when blacks were almost universally regarded as fearsome creatures, and derived a good portion of its punch from that premise. A black man becomes the president of a large Madison Avenue advertising agency by mistake, and proceeds to turn the company on its head. Particularly hilarious are the television commercials that Swope makes up, which put real people in stereotypical ad situations...
...might recommend dropping, though he lately has shied away from the subject. And he believes it is unfair to tax corporate profits and then tax the dividends paid out of those profits−so he would either knock out all taxes on dividend income or stop taxing the portion of corporate profits that is paid out in dividends to shareholders...
...entered [the White House]and having twice or thrice rung a bell which nobody answered ... on the ground floor, as divers other gentlemen (mostly with their hats on, and their hands in their pockets) were doing very leisurely ... The greater portion of this assemblage . . . had no particular business there, that anybody knew of. A few were closely eyeing the movables, as if to make quite sure that President [John Tyler], who was far from popular, had not made away with any of the furniture, or sold the fixtures for his private benefit...
...infusion of $645 million in bank borrowings by the company. This has left Lockheed burdened by a ratio of debt to shareholders' equity that would be uncomfortably high for any company. Under the new refinancing plan, the bankers agreed to exchange $50 million of the unguaranteed portion of the debt for warrants to buy Lockheed preferred stock. The remaining $350 million in unguaranteed debt was also converted -from 90-day term notes to an extended term loan calling for installment payments stretching into...