Word: fraction
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...quart of gas to find a quart of milk. Even more important, localities routinely agree to extend roads, sewer lines and other utilities to new suburban developments built far from downtown, while existing schools and housing stock are left to decay. "Impact fees" on developers cover just a fraction of what services for newcomers actually cost...
...miniature sizes, draw heavily from the limited power supplies on a space probe, and their weight translates into higher launch costs. Bar-Cohen says the components required to construct each strip of artificial muscle cost a total of $200, need just four volts of power and weigh only a fraction of an ounce. Says Rob Manning, chief engineer for nasa's Mars Lander missions: "With all of our basketball-sized spacecraft, we're going to need this kind of technology...
...been going to, every week, since we first arrived here: Lamont Library. Why create a whole new building when one already exists? It's pretty hard to avoid Lamont. All the books you need for classes, papers and even pleasure are there. On any given night, some large fraction of the student body is trapped within that somber edifice, sweating it out in solitude. The clientele is already there; all we need to provide is ambiance...
...Scribner's Magazine recognized the overwhelming elitism felt among the fraction of Gilded Youth...
...reduce the risk of cervical cancer, all women should get a Pap smear annually, starting at 18 or whenever they first have sex. (More than 90% of cervical cancers are caused by a common virus that is sexually transmitted, although only a fraction of infected women develop the malignancy.) If you have normal tests three years in a row, you may, at your doctor's discretion, begin having them less frequently. But don't be fooled into thinking you no longer need a Pap smear after menopause. As long as you have a cervix, you need to get tested...