Word: portions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just a few years ago, pundits were proclaiming the decline of American industry and heralding the conversion of the U.S. to a service economy. Overwhelmed by a tide of imports, U.S. manufacturing firms were accounting for a dwindling portion of the gross national product and generating a shrinking share of total employment. At the same time, service businesses ranging from fast-food outlets to financial conglomerates seemed to be where the action was. Soon, the seers said, Americans would all be flipping burgers, selling software or shining one another's Italian shoes...
...portion of the Army history remains to be released: the long-delayed Volume II, covering the war from November 1950 through June 1951. It seems a safe bet that, thanks in part to Blair's revisionist book, the volume will get a rigorous prepublication inspection for racial bias. Already the Army has set up a task force under General Roscoe Robinson Jr., a black and a Korean War veteran, to lay the groundwork for a separate history of the 24th Infantry...
...Adam A. Sabra '90, president of the Society of Arab Students, called a portion of the posters' content "almost racist...
...bend in the trend. Last year movie attendance by those 40 and older rose 56% over the 1986 figures, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. The teen bloc, which still accounts for a hefty portion of the moviegoing universe, is losing the demographic race to yuppies and their elders. Having been tantalized by rented videos, adults are rediscovering the pleasures of moviegoing. Just ask Sidney Ganis, president of worldwide marketing for Paramount, which, spearheaded by such adult hits as The Untouchables and Fatal Attraction, was 1987's top studio. "Older audiences," Ganis says, "now know it's safe...
Wallach wrote that Israel "will receive somewhere between $65-70 million a year for ten years" and "a portion of these funds will go directly to ((the)) Labor ((party))." This suggested arrangement "would be denied everywhere," the memo predicted -- as, indeed, it has been...