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...Undergraduate Council provides 67.1 percent of student group funding (excluding public service grants), but Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 says her group can provide only a small fraction of the resources groups deserve...
...goes to church, it's probably to an Episcopal one, and he makes exactly four and a half appearances there a year. During the war, it's most likely that he was in the Navy, where he served 24 months and 21 days, of which only a fraction more than nine months were spent overseas. He was probably an enlisted man or, if an officer, an ensign, served some time in the V-12, but doesn't belong to a veterans' organization...
...relate to one another. In recent years, information technology has been responsible for more than one-quarter of real economic growth. Jobs in information technology pay significantly more than nontechnology jobs. By the year 2000, 60% of all jobs will require the technology skills that only a fraction of Americans now have...
These tests are very high-schoolish, but not for the reasons most people think. True, the material they examine is occasionally elementary and often irrelevant, and the skill of answering these questions under such tight time pressure is really only useful to a small fraction of those taking all the various tests. True, the tests are mostly multiple choice, can be mastered through expensive test-prep courses and probably don't reflect anything about one's potential performance in graduate school...
...with the dizzying pace of Internet growth? Neither can your search engine. A new study from the NEC research institute says Excite, HotBot, Infoseek et al are barely able to cover one-third of the 320 million web pages estimated to be out there. ?The engines index only a fraction of the total number of documents on the Web,? wrote researchers Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles in the journal Science. ?The coverage of any one engine is significantly limited...