Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost housing in the suburbs that could attract inner-city minority groups. Under a provision, known as Section 8, of the 1974 housing law, HUD subsidizes the rent paid by low-income families who live in new, renovated or existing housing. But in this fiscal year, only a small portion of the 325,000 dwelling units under the program are housing families from minority groups in predominantly white areas...
Soviets, West Germans, French and Japanese now spend a greater portion of their G.N.P.s on research than does the U.S. Indeed, the U.S. investment in research actually decreased during the early 1970s, primarily at the expense of "pure" science, which was considered less productive than applied science...
...said last week measurements suggest that an earthquake ranging in magnitude from 5.5 to 6.5 on the Richter scale could occur within the next year in an area 87 miles in diameter that covers part of Los Angeles and the San Fernando and Antelope valleys. It includes the portion of the San Fernando where a major upheaval killed 58 people in 1971 and part of the area being watched by geophysicists because of a mysterious phenomenon called the Palmdale bulge (TIME, April...
...million from a year ago. And it's not earnings; they are progressing reasonably well. The real problem is a balance sheet with a debt of $813 million and an equity of only $75 million." Although Haack says that Lockheed may begin repaying the Government-guaranteed portion of its debt this year, the General Accounting Office has expressed doubt that the company can complete repayment on schedule by 1978-and the Government is unlikely to renew the guarantee...
Vernon Proctor '76, who will present the proposal to the committee, said yesterday that allowing students to "dabble in different fields" to fulfill the minor portion of their requirement would "bring flexibility" to the department...