Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acted as if it was more important to expand capacity than to make money. Even though the Government stood ready to buy aluminum for its strategic stockpile, an excess supply overhung the market, depressing prices. As Duncan Campbell, vice president of Montreal-based Alcan, which sells more than a quarter of its production in the U.S., puts it, "We went through our garden of Gethsemane in most of the 1970s basically because of oversupply. We were gouging each other's eyes out." A costly lesson was learned...
...abduction was carried out with deadly precision. At 9 a.m., after first attending his daily Mass, the punctual Moro left his apartment in the Trionfale quarter on the north side of Rome and got into the back seat of his blue Fiat 130. His police driver and his bodyguard sat in front. An Alfa Romeo, carrying three plainclothes policemen, followed closely behind. About half a mile from Moro's home, a white Fiat station wagon came to an abrupt halt at a corner stop sign, forcing Moro's driver to brake sharply. The police escort car slammed into...
...Meanwhile, public sentiment against nuclear power seems stronger than ever. A Harris survey of New York State residents released this month shows that, when asked whether they would be willing to have a nuclear plant sited in their area, more than half of those polled answered no. Only a quarter of the 1,000 respondents approved. And voters in California's Kern County, a rich, conservative farming area, rejected by about 2 to 1 a proposal by Western utilities to build a $5 billion nuclear complex large enough to supply electricity for a city of 5 million...
...Walzer: "We can't function as a nutritionist who tells his patients that they are very intelligent and that there's a supermarket around the corner." Proponents also argue that even though the new requirements are more rigid than existing ones, they would still fill only a quarter of an undergraduate's schedule, the same as in the present system. That would leave the equivalent of two years for a major area of study and one year for electives...
This is a perennial debate, and the proposal before the Faculty strikes a judicious balance. Although the new curriculum provides more structure than the existing General Education Program, the core itself will take up only a quarter of the entire undergraduate program, and the students will be free to choose among several courses in each required category. In addition, undergraduates will continue to select their own concentration and will have a quarter of their courses reserved for free elective choice...