Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best either had thrown until Saturday's test at West Point (only the weight throw and the shot put were not held in the new Madson Square Garden) was a fraction more than...
...spin continuously except for brief intervals when they are shut down to clean cages and replenish food supplies. When the test animals are finally removed and returned to the normal gravity of earth, their experience is roughly equivalent to that of astronauts suddenly subjected to weightlessness or to a fraction of terrestrial gravity...
...lunar New Year, some U.S. officers in Saigon reckoned the losses to be closer to one-third of that figure. That would leave North Viet Nam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap with considerable muscle for a new wave of attacks on the cities. U.S. casualties were a fraction of the Communist losses, but they were the war's heaviest nonetheless, totaling more than 1,350 dead and 6,800 wounded since the beginning of the Tet strikes...
Though it got only a small fraction of what it wanted, Pakistan accepted the ruling fairly graciously and promised to abide by it. The reception in India was testy. The Indian press complained about the "justice" of international courts, and the noisy opposition parties accused Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party of sacrificing a bit of Bharat Mata-Mother India-to the hated Pakistanis. The opposition even introduced a no-confidence motion, which will probably come to a vote this week. Since Indira commands a comfortable majority in Parliament, she is unlikely to be beaten, but the nationalist...
Linardos is trying to get big name performers such as Richie Havens and the Chambers Brothers--whom Club 47 helped in the old days--to give a few shows at the club for a fraction of their normal fees...