Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belgian policymakers a rationale for buying the F-16 while at the same time mollifying French-speaking voters. He gave Belgian Defense Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants assurances that the U.S. would consider buying $30 million worth of Belgian machine guns, which happen to be made in the French-speaking portion of Belgium...
...recruit students or adopt special programs. John Doherty, former president of the Boston Teachers Union, supports magnets but fears that "the magnetism won't be sufficient in September to bring kids into the magnet schools. They will [then] be assigned on an involuntary basis, and having a large portion of kids assigned to what are supposed to be magnet schools is a contradiction in terms." Boston still has fierce advocates of purely neighborhood schools. Says Elvira ("Pixie") Palladino, East Boston leader of ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights): "You'll never get to the point where kids will...
...first yanked the museum portion of the library out of the yards while the second, dropped less than a month ago, threatened to move the whole complex including the archives out of Harvard Square unless someone comes up with a separate site for the museum acceptable to the board of directors...
...January, the University names five outside managers to handle about $125 million of the portfolio. In addition to managing a portion of Harvard's money, each of the managers is now cooperating with Harvard in making available economic and investment information to share for the benefit of the whole portfolio...
...University's proposal, if adopted by the library corporation at its board of directors meeting later this month, would enable the museum to be built on three acres of Harvard-owned land near the Business School, and the archival portion of the library to be kept at the MBTA subway yards site across the street from Eliot House...