Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue of bean quantity, Bennis said Bok had only mentioned a "small portion" in his October 13 reply to Bennis's challenge. "But smallness in Harvard terms may be large in Midwestern terms," he said...
...local level. Neighborhood leaders, for example, would know better than city hall when to patrol the streets and how to clean them, how to maintain the parks and collect the garbage. The flourishing block associations in the city are a modest revival of local self-government. A portion of the city labor force might be dispatched to work in the neighborhoods. One employee could serve as a captain to coordinate activities for a five-block area and stimulate volunteer work. With a limited power of the purse, communities could choose among services provided by the city government or by private...
Philips-MCA's laser system has an added attraction. By letting the laser beam circle over the same portion of track, the player can freeze a single frame (it takes one revolution to make one picture). It can also run the images in slow motion and even go backward with only the push of a button-all potentially valuable features for educational programs. Each competitor is convinced that its approach is superior. But about one point there is no disagreement: either system could signal a major change in home entertainment habits...
...keep out of danger. The Secret Service has about 3,600 employees, including 1,380 actual agents; 63 field offices, including its Washington headquarters; and an annual budget of $85 million, more than ten times as great as at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. A good portion of these resources is dedicated?all of the time or part of the time?to the President's protection. Yet, as recent events have demonstrated, the elaborate precautions do not always work...
...best possible light. At one point, where she apologizes for her conventional upbringing, she inserted the words "upper middle class" to describe her social status. Moore also had second thoughts and crossed out some of the most revealing passages from her first version. In the text that follows, one portion that she deleted is enclosed in brackets. Since Moore nurtured the vain hope that the radicals would read her story and readmit her to their ranks, she set down some weird and garbled thoughts about business and economics, and wrote of her adventures as an FBI spy and gradual conversion...