Word: portions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though the garden is being used by the College as a park for cookouts and picnics, some claim the University's portion is still very much a part of the Fly Club's domain...
...University administrators say Harvard students are not getting more for their money--they are just paying for a larger portion of what they get. "At this point you are, as students, bearing more of the real costs than your parents were as students 20 years ago," says Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, the director of the Budget Office...
...reduced in all brackets, the cuts were tilted heavily toward the upper end of the scale. In addition, Social Security taxes about tripled, to a top of $3,379.50 this year. The blow fell most heavily on the middle and lower classes, since the Social Security tax exempts the portion of wage and salary incomes above $45,000 a year and all income from interest, dividends and rent. The result: according to a Congressional Budget Office study, only the top 10% of the population received a significant net tax cut between 1977 and 1988; most of the other 90% paid...
...result was reported to Prince Alexandre de Merode, the Belgian chief of the International Olympic Committee's Medical Commission, and he then checked to determine whose sample it was, for it was identified only by number. Frantic meetings ensued, and a second portion of the original sample, which had been stored in a locked refrigerator, was tested. The results were the same: Ben Johnson, the fastest man on earth, had cheated...
...There is definitely a large portion of undergraduates and graduates who are not registered but live here," Albano said, adding that students can help convert graduates, faculty and others who are registered to vote in the area...