Word: fraction
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...believe the Taliban has begun to stockpile large quantities of the drug, which is worth about $464,000 per ton once it is exported from Afghanistan. When British forces recently occupied Musikalia in Helmand province, they uncovered a stockpile of 45 tons of opium. But that's a tiny fraction of what has disappeared. "Where is it? We have been asking," says Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. drug office. He recently appealed to NATO forces and Western intelligence officers to launch an aggressive hunt for the opium...
...look at the record of the recent past, every case on national security, for example, has been divided 5-4. Abortion is up for grabs. Affirmative action and racial justice are [major] issues. The longest a president can serve is a tiny fraction of the [average Supreme Court justice's tenure]. The amount of power that the Supreme Court has is much greater, for better or for worse. We're one vote away from flip-flopping on the law of the land on issue after issue...
...feared, would lead us away from ... 'amateur' culture. We would become just consumers of culture, not also producers." For his part, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, "was keen that the Web be an RW medium," even though he would eventually capture only a tiny fraction of the money that his invention would create...
...attempting to revoke the veto granted to women whose husbands seek to take another wife, allow men to divorce their wives without notification, and absolve divorced men from paying alimony, the alternative to which is a heavily-taxed severance that leaves the divorced wife with only a small fraction of the original sum. These clauses the government added to the Family Support Bill were met with tremendous contestation by the Iranian women’s rights movement, whose counter-attacks included the “One Million Signatures Campaign” against the act and against similar laws allowing...
...loth to listen to demagoguery. When they err, they’re likely to turn away from those who belittle their error. To Huffington, it may be clear that the issues of the day “simply do not have two sides.” To that fraction of the electorate that has swung Republican in the last two presidential elections, things aren’t so certain. Mocking or ignoring that uncertainty—rather than arguing forcefully against it, as Bill Clinton did 16 years ago—is usually neither a winning strategy nor an honorable...