Word: fraction
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...medium is that it's always been plagued by too much content, rather than too little. A now-infamous report issued last summer by the NEC Research Institute announced that for all their inflated stock prices, the major search engines were only covering at best a fraction of the Web. Forrester Research estimates the size of the web at 500-600 million pages; AltaVista, which claims to index the most pages of any major search engine, only covers 150 million. The best bet, the report stated, may be search engines like Metacrawler, which simply aggregate search results from other engines.MORE...
...Harvard has outsourced a lot of security for a fraction of the pay, and the union guards that are left have been working without a contract for a three years," says Aaron D. Bartley, a first-year law student involved in the Campaign. "It exemplifies the University's desire to save a few nickels and dimes...
...best kind of deal is one that works out well for both sides," says Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom. AutoNation chairman H. Wayne Huizenga says, "You never know when you'll find yourself sitting across the negotiating table from that person again." In market terms: Forget the last fraction. Pigs get slaughtered...
What drove Des McAnuff into allowing such a stunning, moving and magnificently consuming musical to be dissected into a mere fraction of what it once...
...agent for that kind of humiliating defeat would have been greeted with derision in Belgrade. No one's laughing now. In just over a year, the K.L.A. has transformed itself from a disorganized network of bandits into a presentable, if limited, guerrilla army. That army is a fraction of the size of the Yugoslav army, but it has all the classic guerrilla advantages: the loyalty of the population, an intimate knowledge of the terrain and a brutality that won its members the label of "terrorists" a year ago. Already they have killed hundreds of Serb security forces in ambushes...