Word: portions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ballard said the stern section was lying 600 yards from the forward portion of the liner in a large field of scattered debris...
...farm policy, however, is proving very costly. To compensate farmers for lowered price supports, the law provides dramatic increases in so-called deficiency payments, which are given directly to farmers to ensure that their net incomes remain stable. Under the new plan, farmers will generally derive a larger portion of their income, typically more than a third, from the Government. As a result, budget-cutting pressure could force the program to be scaled back next year in Congress. Moreover, the dramatic increase in U.S. farm subsidies fans protectionist sentiment in other countries...
...strong attack on pornography: the panel stated that there is a causal link between violent pornography and aggressive behavior toward women. Furthermore, it said that exposure to sexually explicit material that is not violent but nevertheless degrades women -- a category that "constitutes somewhere between the predominant and the overwhelming portion of what is currently standard fare heterosexual pornography" -- bears "some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence." The Meese panel's findings are diametrically opposed to those of the 1970 report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, which asserted that pornography was not a significant cause...
Following the collapse of the Russian Empire and the ensuing Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine was carved up among the Soviet Union. Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. While the Poles and Romanians repressed their Ukrainian populations, persecution was even worse in the Soviet-controlled eastern portion...
Many students add that a significant portion of their Ukrainian education comes from their classmates. Grouped together in Mather House, they say they are discovering other Ukrainians share similar concerns about their heritage as them...