Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since a large portion of our money goes to the Government to be spent in ways that we do not always favor, I see no reason why the remainder should not be spent in educating our children as we see fit in places where they will be safe, well-educated and exposed to the religious beliefs we favor-without our being made to feel guilty about not supporting public education...
Washington is a lovely city at the end of the year. The President, Congress and a goodly portion of the other population are gone. The capital is left to legend and memories and elegantly decorated old buildings that have watched the republic's progress almost from the beginning...
...make matters worse, the President has managed to get himself into no-win situations with three major pieces of legislation that should soon be coming across his desk. No matter how he handles the bills, he is bound to offend a sizable portion of the American electorate. He also could give Reagan some tailor-made issues. The trio of bills...
...Channel a greater portion of financial assistance through international agencies, such as the World Bank, which would provide fiscal supervision of projects and also defuse criticism by the poor that the aid is politically motivated. The bank, in fact, is already a major source of development money; this year it has committed $1.5 billion in low-interest loans...
...affairs of state while moving his bowels.) Indeed, there are few places so conducive to intellectual exercise as a well-appointed bathroom. Lord Chesterfield advised his son that he "knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the call of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments." Thousands of monastery manuscripts found a dual purpose ending in the toilets of the rich...