Word: fractionalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scant fraction of the agency's 15,000-odd employees actually go out into the cold. At Langley's elaborate seventh-floor operations center, a bank of high-speed (100 words per minute) printers receive top-secret traffic from the National Security Agency, diplomatic reports from embassies overseas, information from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as data from CIA men around the world. In Helms's office, there are "secure" red, grey, blue or white direct-line phones with scramblers attached-on which the President often calls...
...questions SDS raised was whether the terms of our invitations to men like Goldberg and McNamara didn't inferentially put the University's prestige behind them," Neustadt said. "We found that this was a view held strongly by a fraction of this community, including some of its permanent members. And if, in their view, we are lending this prestige, then...
...moment, the Federation is not yet over the hump. Several serious problems remain for it to deal with. The first is simply to drum up interest among the other TF's. Though its general meetings have been well-attended, the Federation has only reached a fraction of the teaching fellows in the University, and, as one organizer said, "Nobody's going to listen to any proposition we make until we have a good meaty percentage of teaching fellows behind...
...inequity in the grading system because a student's rank really has only minimal importance. In determining admission to Dean's List and such programs as Honors Tutorial a student's rank group is consulted, but most departments are flexible enough to admit students to Tutorial who fall a fraction of a grade short of the required level...
...made for training them. They will be cannon fodder necessary for a land war in Asia. A large number of students will then be drafted to create the technical support base such an army will need. These people will not need very much training at all-not a fraction of what the I-Y's would need to become technicians themselves. Thus, absolution of 2-S is probably a precondition for a massive land war in Asia -- and should be examined in that light...