Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These students probably know by now that the Harvard Research Contract Office did $55 million worth of business last year with the government. A small fraction of this money for publishable, unclassified research came from the State Department, Defense Department, and the Agency for International Development...
...trained 5,000 young Latin American guerrillas and launched more than 15 different at tempts at revolution in twelve Latin American countries. All of them have failed, though small groups still operate in Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia. Even in these countries, guerrilla bands have been reduced to a fraction of their original strength, and are at best fighting only defensive actions...
Admittedly, said Dr. Burchenal, these cases represent only a fraction of 1% of the world's leukemia toll (the U.S. annually records about 18,000 new leukemia cases-about 3,000 children), and virtually all got intensive treatment in one of the few medical centers specializing in leukemia. But this does not mean that such care is limited to children living close to those centers. Dr. Zubrod urged his physician listeners to refer patients with suspected leukemia to the centers where, if the diagnosis is confirmed, they can be treated by a team of experts until the leukemic cell...
...Britain seemed determined to buy the bookmaker lock, stock and tout sheet. Priced at an initial $1.40 each, the 1,350,000 shares were grabbed up in a fraction of the 60 seconds it took Ladbroke's harried brokerage house to announce that the issue had been "very heavily oversubscribed." Altogether, investors came running with enough cash to buy the issue 100 times over. So great was the crush that it will be days before brokers can figure out who was first-come and ought to be first-served, thus delaying the opening of regular trading in the stock...
With the balloon in place, the ECG signals were fed into a relay to regulate the pump's timing. When the patient's left ventricle contracted naturally, it sent a modest amount of blood into the aorta, but under insufficient pressure. A fraction of a second later, when her aortic valve had closed, the ECG signal made the pump fill the balloon with helium. This forced the blood in the aorta not only up and down, but also back to the roots of the coronary arteries, thus increasing the oxygen supply to the heart muscle. Meanwhile the ventricle...