Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last decade the situation has changed drastically. Secure in its working class, the PC began to approach non-proletarian sectors of Italian society, modifying the party line to become more amenable to a larger portion of the electorate. After regional elections last June, the PC found itself only two percentage points away from becoming the largest party in the country. Meanwhile the American-supported DC has matched the PC's rise with a spectacular decline of its own. Corrupt, fragmented, and stagnant, the DC is split into nine factions with separate organizations and politics, whose laders have run the party...
...response to Watson's alarm, a portion of sections 18 and 19 was roped off on December 5, 1973, for the game against Dartmouth, and heavy police supervision was maintained for those who did sit in the sections...
...finished third. Ken Houston was first for Harvard in 11th position. Six seconds behind him in 12th was Nordic Captain Peter Dillon. John Hunter took 15th. Hubbard said yesterday that the icy course and narrow trails hampered the team--Dillon got going too fast on an icy downhill portion and "flew off the course and hit a tree," according to Hubbard...
...Guatemala quake appears to have been caused by the movement of the two plates opposite the Cocos-the northern portion of the Americas Plate, which carries Mexico, the U.S. and Canada and generally moves in a westerly direction, and the Caribbean Plate, which carries part of Central and South America and moves toward the east, relative to its neighbor. This movement is slow, perhaps no more than 1½ in. a year. But the strains created as these two huge masses slide against each other are enormous. For at least 200 years, there has been no major movement where...
...Kitchen, president. While briefly in charge, Haack said, his top priority will be to refinance Lockheed's debt, now about $600 million. That may be difficult; Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin is planning to introduce legislation demanding a speedup in Lockheed's repayment of the Government-guaranteed portion of its debt...