Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly the war in Viet Nam was a big story again. TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Peter Range was hardly back from covering the desperate situation in Cambodia when the South Vietnamese government decided to abandon a large portion of the country in a strategic withdrawal. After a hectic scramble for transportation, Range managed to cadge a seat on a flight to Danang, terminus for streams of refugees from the northern provinces. His eyewitness report accompanies this week's cover story...
...federal court imposed fines of $5,000 on Gulf and $1,000 on the company's Washington-based vice president, Claude C. Wild Jr. Now SEC investigators state that from 1960 to 1973 Gulf and Wild funneled no less than $10 million into political activities, a "substantial portion" of which was spent illegally. Gulf appears to have been the largest illegal contributor, far surpassing second-place Phillips Petroleum, which was charged with doling out $2.8 million...
...perhaps symptomatic that the purportedly factual portion of Mr. Lemann's phillipic that he began it with a factual error, i.e., he gave the wrong date for the dinner at Joseph...
...faculty composed of members trained in one of the traditional academic disciplines who share a taste for policy issues. A professional school will likewise include such persons within its faculty, but it will also attract many professors who have received their training in professional schools and have spent some portion of their career in public service. A graduate school will be chiefly concerned with research, often of a disciplinary oriented nature, and even its educational program will be directed toward the development of research skills. A professional school, on the other hand, will place greater importance on teaching and will...
...slack that the Federal Reserve is unable to provide stimulus at will. Normally the board controls the money supply indirectly by altering the amount of reserves available to its member banks. The banks are required to count as reserves the cash in their vaults and a certain portion of their demand deposits-mainly checking accounts. They must place the portion of their deposits in non-interest-bearing accounts with the Federal Reserve. The board controls the amount of reserves in the banking system by buying and selling Government securities from bond dealers and thus either adding or withdrawing cash from...