Word: fraction
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With a few exceptions--I've mentioned most of them--my courses didn't take up a large fraction of my time. I didn't feel comfortable being told what to read and when to do it. I never took a music appreciation course, but I spent hours each week listening to orchestral and chamber music with score in hand. I practiced my violin, played sonatas with my classmate Noel Lee '46-'48 and played in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. I spent many happy hours slowly working my way through the novels of Anatole France and the philosophical essays...
...Coop has traditionally refunded its members a set fraction of the amount it spends on purchases during the school year...
...foresee a reasonable return on investment soon. Despite the improvements, Hathaway last year lost $5 million on revenues of $43 million. Many apparel makers have closed U.S. factories and/or shifted manufacturing to low-cost offshore havens. Hathaway, in fact, has a plant in Honduras where workers earn a fraction of the average wage of $7.50 an hour at Waterville...
...Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant nothing; her delight was in the solitary pleasure of creation. The 87 poems in Ants on the Melon are a fraction of her oeuvre, which runs into the thousands...
...that these trust managers were distorting the market in his company but ultimately decided that the best way to beat 'em was to join 'em. Last week shares of a new Class B stock, quickly dubbed Baby Berkshires, went on the market for a mere $1,110 per, a fraction of the mother issue's market value. The Baby B's gained $50 to hit $1,160 the first day and finished at $1,200 on Friday. Whether they'll ever grow up to be like Mama is, well, what markets are all about...