Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...briefly on some specific points which you raised in your letter concerning Executive Branch control over the Postal Service. Under the Reorganization Act the operating budget of the Postal Service is the responsibility of the Board of Governors. Federal appropriations to the Postal Service Fund represent only a small portion of total postal revenues and are provided to cover certain specific costs. Among other things, they provide for public service assistance to the Postal Service during the transition to a completely independent status. I have continued to support the annual appropriation of those funds as set forth in the Reorganization...
...gained experience on Concorde demonstration flights. But with TV crews and interviewers blocking the narrow aisle, even they had difficulty coping with the limited space. The tiny galleys produced two hot-food choices: duck and steak. I chose steak, and it arrived thoroughly overdone, though upgraded by a prior portion of caviar and lobster hors d'oeuvres and a fine 1970 Château Brane-Cantenac. The passengers did not seem to mind the limited menu or the out-of-the-way destination. Said the Duchess of Argyll, 62: "I would have flown her anywhere...
...engine thrusting the economy higher. But then came the wave of increases in oil prices. Aviation fuel, which even at lie per gal. in 1973 represented 20% of an airplane's operating costs, soared to 33? in the U.S. (72? abroad). The climb at least doubled the fuel portion of each jumbo jet's operating costs. Inflation drove up landing fees, insurance rates, wages. To stay solvent, the airlines had to hike fares...
...instructor at Yale, added, "What has emerged in Zaire is a new political class led by Mobutu, a class that has divorced itself rather significantly from the lower level of the bureaucracy and indeed from the lower level of the military and has little legitimacy for the significant rural portion of the population...
...most recent example concerns the reaction to Christmas decorations in House dining halls. Hope Reisman writes to The Crimson that she finds "such decorations offensive and discriminatory." I fail to see the applicability of either term. Ms. Reisman need not feel personally insulted or offended that a sizeable portion of the community wishes to celebrate a particular holiday while she does not. Nor should she feel that she is being discriminated against; no benefits are being conferred on some and specifically not on her except those benefits traceable to a freedom of association which she willfully eschews...