Word: portions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made the $3 million withdrawal in 11 billion sucres, the national currency, on Feb. 6, the day Bucaram was ousted from office. He says he delivered the money in bags to Bucaram's secretary Oscar Celleri, who remains at large. That self-imposed severance pa ckage is just one portion of what the current government says was a scourge of corruption in which Bucaram and his aides cheated Ecuador out of untold millions during his six months in office. On Friday, the Supreme Court charged Bucaram and four top ai des with corruption, embezzlement, nepotism and influence peddling...
...which has much to gain if Americans are scared into privatizing Social Security. Even partial privatization could put in excess of $150 billion into the hands of Wall Street fund managers. Management fees on $150 billion is not small change. Small wonder that Wall Street is behind a significant portion of the millions of dollars that have already been spent to push privatization...
...centerpiece of Russian renewal, Yeltsin insisted, must be filli ng the national coffers--and improving their distribution. To that end, he announced that "taxation reform is my economic task for this year" and made a goal of GNP growth of not less than 2 percent. As if that portion of the speech were for t he Russia people, and perhaps for the anxious West and the IMF, Yeltsin then seemed to turn his attentions to nationalist hawks assembled before him. He reiterated Russia's opposition to the eastward expansion of NATO, which he said was an attempt to "take Russia...
Springer, the Latham Professor of Pathology, and Bleul, a fellow in pathology at the Center for Blood Research, found that the T-tropic strain attacks a different portion of the immune system than does an earlier strain of HIV, called M-tropic strain...
...walked to the beach on Sunday morning. The snow made a wide lateral strip at the top, and where it stopped, the sand, brown and wet, continued to the lip of the ocean. I suppose the tide washing ashore made that portion of the sand too warm and moist to sustain the covering of snow, so half the beach was snow and the other half sand...