Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years a higher birth rate has pushed the Moslem portion of Lebanon's population to an estimated 60% of the 3.2 million total. Christians responded by making it all but an article of faith to block any census that might change the original 1932 figures. Such friction might well have been enough to spark violence, but the present explosion has defied control because of still other complicating factors. Christians and Moslems alike are subdivided into sects, each headed by bosses (zu'ama) who have used patronage to build iron loyalty, as well as personal militias...
...this summer received an initial installment of 725 pages of the FBI's files on their parents' case after filing suit under the Freedom of Information Act, are still awaiting the bulk of the 48,000-page government documents. This Saturday, the FBI is due to release a substantial portion of the remainder, after heavy and continuous pressure from the federal courts for the bureau to comply with...
...federal district court judge dismissed a suit Wednesday by a Cambridge neighborhood group that played a role in the John F. Kennedy Library Corporation's decision to move the museum portion of the complex out of Cambridge last February...
...disappeared behind a curtain, circled past the portrait of a lifeless Harvard Classics professor and for a few moments leaned up against a portion of the battlefield mural on the south wall of the room...
...past year or so, the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Ariz., owned by Marriott Corp., has presented such menu items as New York-cut sirloin steak in three sizes (10 oz. for $9.75, 8 oz. for $8.25, 6 oz. for $6.75) and baked stuffed shrimp in two portions-six for $7.75, four for $5.50. A management study shows that 70% of the steak eaters among its customers have ordered the smaller cuts, and 65% of the shrimp fanciers have chosen the less hearty portion. Last summer Billy Martin's Carriage House in Washington, D.C., introduced smaller portions for smaller prices...