Word: portions
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EACH IN its peculiar, "problematic" way, these three books portray a narrowly circumscribed portion of a large, complex world. One is no less a catalogue raisonne of human knowledge; another is an improbably tangled set of rules or bylaws; and the third is a sort of portrait gallery, with literally hundreds of faces staring off its pages. For all their diversity--and it is hard to imagine how three literary works could be more generically dissimilar--Courses of Instruction, Rules Relating and the Freshman Register share an odd way of looking at what is, after all, a very real Harvard...
Federal regulations also sometimes clash with the practices of the states. Georgia's Governor George Busbee, for example, plans to go to Washington this week to protest restrictions against requiring beneficiaries of Medicaid to pay a portion of their medical bills. Georgia had been assessing such payments, and, at the present rate of spending, the federal ban will leave the state $20.8 million short in its Medicaid budget; the entire program may have to be shut down early next year. In Massachusetts, where the state assumes all local welfare costs, Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis last week reluctantly signed...
...sharp dig at the lawyer: "I can't tell you until I see how big the task is. Most of the tapes are not as audible* as the one you played at that cocktail party." The reference was to Dobrovir's ill-advised playing of a portion of a subpoenaed Nixon tape at a Georgetown party in December...
...Russians, however, almost surely will not get their way completely. To the displeasure of U.S. farmers eager to make more big sales, the Soviets in effect will be rationed to a portion of their wants-how large a portion, the Ford Administration must soon make up its mind. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz last week renewed a request to all U.S. grain exporters to refrain from negotiating any more sales to Moscow until further notice. (The Administration has no statutory authority to order such a suspension, but grain-export companies obey Washington's wishes.) The notice is not likely...
...good chance" may seem a very modest resurrection for so much suffering. Like the old Armenians, Arlen is making another wager: on stoicism as the proper response to despair. It is both an honorable bet and a long shot - the only arguable portion of a unique and grieving book...