Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Williams said a large portion of the grant will go to photocopying old German periodicals, Judaic and Far Eastern texts. He added that he will be able to accomodate most requests for photocopying from the various libraries...
...recover a portion of this spill and contain and dissolve the rest, Pemex, the Mexican State oil company, has put together a small army of 500 workers, 22 boats and twelve aircraft. But chances of halting the flow soon are dim because the undersea gauges and wellhead are blocked by debris from the shattered rig. Pemex is drilling two intercepting relief wells to tap the oil below its escape point and thus stop the leakage. But such a procedure can take at least two months...
...never married climbed from 10.5% in 1960 to 18%. Since 1970 the number of families headed by a woman rose 43%, from 5.6 million to 8 million. Divorce is now so common, the report added, that nearly half of all children born today can expect to spend a meaningful portion of their lives before age 18 in single-parent families. The report did not speculate on what psychological effects that may have on the young...
...past two years, a new band of buyers has flocked to the market: American institutional investors. Some U.S. pension funds, mutual funds and bank trust departments are putting a portion of their assets into bullion. Meanwhile, U.S. individuals, professional hedgers and a number of the larger multinational corporations are in the gold futures market. As a result, contracts representing 312 million ounces were written in the first four months of this year, and the level of futures trading in the U.S. dwarfs gold markets abroad. Individual Americans last year also bought at least 3.7 million ounces of gold coins...
...Faculty has an opportunity to remedy its past deficiencies through legislation proposed by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, requiring professors to teach more tutorials. The major portion of the legislation simply recognizes the longstanding but blantantly disregarded legislation passed in 1958 requiring that no more than 30 per cent of a department's tutors be teaching fellows and no less than 30 per cent be full time Faculty members...