Word: fraction
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...BEEN CAPABLE OF SENDING EXtraterrestrial signals for only a minute fraction of the billions of years our planet has been habitable. Accepting the astronomically remote assumption that a civilization parallel to ours, with the same technology, currently exists and is a mere 1,000 light-years from us, our signals will reach them around A.D. 3000. Will there be anyone left here on Earth to receive the reply? ROBERT REDDEN Warwick, Rhode Island...
...form a special West African Task Force that helped nab Adekanbi. According to authorities, his gang used counterfeit cards to obtain at least $650,000 in goods and cash advances and had access to lines of credit worth $8 million. Officials suspect that this loot is only a fraction of the thieves' real total...
Gramm supporters will now probably turn to Dole for leadership, with a smaller fraction voting for Buchanan, according to one member of the Republican Club...
...Fraction-1, a tasteless, odorless protein found in all green vegetables but in especially high concentrations in tobacco. It has a greater nutritional value than the milk protein casein and can be used to fortify cosmetics, food and soft drinks...
...letter to the aging pianist, then living in Connecticut. Their correspondence blossomed into a friendship, and after hearing a tape of his playing, Suesse invited Mintun to visit her. When she moved to the Virgin Islands in 1975, she gave her protege her scrapbooks, recordings and, at a fraction of its true worth, her Steinway...