Word: portions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grandfather owned a thresher, the only one in the village at that time. When Communist officials took my grandfather's land and thresher away as part of "collectivization," they forced him into service for the collectivity. In exchange for his work he received a far smaller portion of the harvest than he did when his thresher was his own. The propaganda of volunteering for the community did not work for him and for many others mainly because the members of the community received too little to lead a decent life...
...understand the difficulty of providing in-depth, investigative, interesting reporting in every story in a daily newspaper. However, if The Crimson hopes to have its voice heard by a greater portion of the Harvard community, it must reach out to whose who feel that there is no news in The Crimson. And it must learn from the type of coverage it provided in the student custody story--informing the Harvard community of news events weeks before they become hour-long specials...
...troops took it from St. Petersburg to Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). While the German government claimed the wall panels were destroyed during the1945 Soviet invasion of Konigsburg, Russian officials charged that Bonn had hidden the treasure. While the fate of the rest of the room remains unknown, this small portion apparently was stolen by a German truck driver in the convoy transporting pieces of the room to Konigsburg. The 22-by-28 inch gold-framed amber mosaic depicting two couples in a lush garden hung for years in his Potsdam apartment until his son, who disliked it, stored...
...prenuptial agreement. Sources say this is the sticking point. The second Mrs. Trump, 33, is due between $1 million and $5 million if they split now, but a source told the New York Times that if the union lasts one more year, she will get a portion of his net worth, estimated at between $450 million and $2.5 billion. No hard feelings, though. Marla apparently will still be the host of the Trump-owned Miss Universe Pageant in Miami...
...clear the need for a World War II memorial in Washington [ESSAY, April 21], but he failed to familiarize himself with the site-selection and design-selection process. The traffic circle he suggested at the foot of the Arlington National Cemetery suggested by him was considered and rejected. The portion of the Washington Mall that includes the Rainbow Pool, the agreed-upon site for the memorial, needs a structure to enhance it. The four panels that reviewed design submissions selected, independently and unanimously, Friedrich St. Florian's design as the most appropriate for the site and for the significance...