Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Answer Is No. Sherman Adams' voice changed again. A sharper emphasis flattened the odd musical, soothing quality, and his chin edged forward a fraction. "Did Bernard Goldfine benefit in any way in his relations with any branch of the Federal Government because he was a friend of Sherman Adams? Did Sherman Adams seek to secure any favor or benefits for Bernard Goldfine because of his friendship? The answer to both questions is no . . . I have never permitted any personal relationship to affect in any way any actions of mine in matters relating to the conduct of my office...
...will-o'-the-wispy as weightlessness, the gravity-free state that will envelop man when he orbits around the earth or reaches for the moon and planets. Reason: in the earth's atmosphere and gravity belt, this unearthly state can be created only for a fraction of a minute at a time. To learn at firsthand how it is done and what it feels like, TIME's Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant went weightless in one of the Air Force's fast jet fighters. His account...
...pushing into it a simple rod of neutron-absorbing material. Control rods are still used, but the operators of big modern reactors dare not depend on them alone. Under some conditions, the fierce nuclear fire in the reactor's core can make a disastrous excursion in a fraction of a second...
...majors have been recording stereophonically (i.e., channeling the sound into two tracks) as well as monaurally for several years to build a repertory backlog for eventually selling the average home listener on stereo's extra depth and clarity. A small fraction of the recordings is on the market as stereo tapes, but the high cost of tape equipment and of the tape itself ($14.95 and up for the amount of music that goes for $3.98 or $4.98 on LPs) limits its sale. As an alternative, the industry concentrated its research on the development of a stereo disk that would...
...weeks after President Magsaysay's death, the new Garcia administration gave an organization called the Philippine Coconut Producers' Federation permission to barter copra for foreign goods. The federation, Senate investigators later learned, was merely a front for a naturalized Chinese operator who exported only a fraction of the copra he was supposed to, but managed to reap a tidy $600,000 profit by selling to Manila merchants his dollar import allocation...