Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed $85.8 billion budget for 1975 sounds, it is really rather modest. Allowing for inflation, it is about $8.7 billion less than was spent in 1964, before the big Viet Nam buildup began. The proposed 1975 outlays would consume 5.9% of the U.S. gross national product ?the same portion as last year but far less than the 8.3% of the G.N.P...
Schlesinger believes that to do his job will require spending more money on the military. Since 1968 defense has accounted for a steadily decreasing portion of total federal spending. The outlays for fiscal 1974 will total $79.5 billion; when adjusted for inflation, this is the lowest Pentagon spending since the Korean War began. Even before Schlesinger became Secretary of Defense, he was warning that cutting more out of military spending was a "self-defeating game" that might eventually give the Soviets the appearance?if not the reality ?of being stronger than the U.S. Once in office, he was even...
...savings in an industry that attracts heated criticism -and invites price rollbacks-when it rolls up an unusual profit. Moreover, the oil companies are falling deeper into debt. A top Manhattan banker reports that 37 of the largest U.S.-owned oil companies have been forced to finance an increasing portion of their capital expansions by going into long-term debt because of difficulty in raising funds through the preferred method of selling common stock. Texaco's Card estimates that, to get financing for its heavy capital needs between now and 1985, "the industry would have to achieve an annual...
...live as long as 15 years, far longer than most other laboratory animals, and have livers that are similar to man's. The researchers put 26 baboons on highprotein, high-vitamin diets, but for 13 of the animals substituted ethanol, or grain alcohol, for much of the carbohydrate portion of the dietary requirements. The alcohol provided the animals with fully half their caloric intake...
Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House and professor of English, revealed to a small portion of his class on the contemporary novel the content of two questions and the specific format for last Friday's final examination in the course...