Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election, which in this case will be in 1968. Only 274 more people than the required minimum-123,096 out of the nearly 2,500,000 who voted in the last statewide election-signed petitions, thereby suspending the anti-Daylight Saving law. Thus, for at least two summers, the fraction of Michiganders who petitioned for the referendum were set to have their...
...months of experimentation, a group led by North American Electronics Engineer Edward Flint devised a compact infrared sensor that can be mounted atop a plane. While scanning 45° to either side of the aircraft's flight path, the sensor can detect temperature variations as small as a fraction of a degree Fahrenheit in atmospheric carbon dioxide at a range of from 24 to 48 miles. These variations register on three side-by-side cockpit gauges that show the pilot whether a temperature gradient lies directly ahead or 45° to the left or right of his flight path...
...About the story on the anti-ballistic missile [May 26]: No one denies that an ABM system would stop only a fraction of incoming warheads-no defense of any kind in any war has ever been 100% effective. The idea is to sow enough doubt, uncertainty and expense into the plans of the enemy to deter him from striking. The daring technical innovations of high X-ray yield and terminal interception pioneered by the Soviets point the way to a viable ABM defense. Let's build one. NORMAN G. LOOPER Lieutenant, U.S.N. St. Paul...
...powered ships are safe, and to promote their acceptance in ports around the world. Now the Administration says that she has accomplished both her good will and scientific missions. Neither has come cheap. Indeed, experience with Savannah made it painfully clear that income from cargo can pay but a fraction of operating costs of nuclear vessels, which are boosted by extraordinary safety requirements and specialized crew training...
Gell-Mann's theory, would consist of three quarks. Then why does it contain only a fraction of the mass of the quarks? The answer, physicists believe, is that most of the mass of the three quarks in a proton is relativistically converted into the tremendous energy that binds them together...