Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Later, when I reached the Age of Math Class, I found this skill invaluable. While my eyes never left Miss Robinson's face, I was quite decidedly somewhere else. But after many years of such duality, not to mention of crumbs in my pajamas and an idea that a fraction's denominator was utterly superfluous, I decided to put an end to my double living. I could only be in one locale at any given point in time, I told myself. Like most bad habits, however, this one lurked around the outskirts of my consciousness, just waiting for the right...
...LIGHT ON SAVING ENERGY Forget the dim glare of a classroom's fluorescent strip. The Twister from Lights of America--which makes only energy-efficient products--is a bright, compact fluorescent bulb that fits standard sockets, uses a fraction of the wattage of its incandescent cousins and lasts as long as seven years...
...this year will be obsolete in just 18 months, thanks to deep price cuts and relentless improvements. Someday they could be prized as terminals on a home network, but our track record so far in dealing with the senior machines is poor. The National Safety Council says only a fraction of last year's 21 million over-the-hill machines were recycled (2.3 million) or refurbished for charities (1.3 million). MORE...
...Nike did not disclose any information about factories in Indonesia, and many of the ones that were disclosed are in the U.S., even though most of the abuses occur overseas," said Beach, noting that the 42 locations are only a fraction of Nike's hundreds of factories...
...activities. In the wake of Pinochet's arrest last year in Britain, Clinton asked the agency and four other branches of government to review for release "all documents that shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence" from 1968 to 1991. The CIA has released only a fraction of the documents it should have and, despite a high priority in Clinton's directive, not one on the Horman case. "They didn't comply," says a State Department official. Asked for an explanation, the CIA told TIME it would release some Horman documents in the future...