Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee structures directly involve only a fraction of the shop-floor work force. They challenge the hierarchical organization of daily production in only indirect ways. Such committees are potentially a useful adjunct to a union board room seat, but they don't create real shop-floor democracy...
...offices in Phnom-Penh to monitor the distribution of food, thus helping ensure that it will reach starving civilians and not the battling armies. For many Cambodians, aid will arrive too late. The country needs a minimum of 700 tons of food per day, and only a fraction of that is arriving...
...feasible. Earlier this summer, fully one-third of all the nation's nuclear plants were shut down due to minor accidents, regulatory procedures and routine maintenance and refueling. There were no electricity shortages, no brown-outs. With nukes providing less than four percent of U.S. electricity (itself only a fraction of total energy needs), with 30 to 50 per cent of our energy being wasted, with a huge excess electrical generating capacity on the part of the utilities, even a modest program of energy efficiency would totally eliminate the need for the uneconomic, inefficient, and highly dangerous practice of generating...
...either. Benedek became suspicious and, he claims, asked Straw for proof of purchase and sale. Straw did not furnish it. He wrote Benedek two checks totaling $655,000; both bounced. Then he wrote three promissory notes to cover his debts and, according to Benedek, defaulted on all but a fraction of them. Most of the furniture collection, Benedek discovered later from a newspaper article in the Maine Antique Digest, corresponded to one auctioned off by Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York; Straw had never owned it. None of the old masters is listed in the gallery's inventory...
...U.S.S.R. over a crisis in Jordan; the reason for Nixon's famed "tilt" toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India-and a secret decision to give major aid to Peking if the Soviets threatened China. Throughout all three parts (which, of course represent only a fraction of the full, 1,521-page book), Kissinger offers unusual insights into that remarkable figure, Richard Nixon, "this withdrawn, lonely and tormented...