Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instead of narrow-mindedly designing planned obsolescence and physical deterioration into manufactured goods to maintain the growth of our economy, why can't we invest a fraction more of our great personal and corporate income in the futures of the underprivileged in this country and in some of the underdeveloped nations...
...space industry, only a fraction of the scientific professionals are productive. Hundreds of brainy M.I.T., Caltech and other technological grads are recruited each year only to be mothballed in the employer-contractors' private skill banks, as elements in "capabilities" to be asserted in possible or problematical future competitions for new public business. Meanwhile, the eager, brilliant young men gradually sink into time-serving desuetude, their skills and motivation deteriorating, their lavish salaries charged to taxpayer-supported projects of questionable usefulness in which they play no real part...
...controlled only 42% of the paper's stock, he quietly signed up other rebels, including the paper's ambitious editor George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item largely because he had written more than 50 editorials urging Hawaiian statehood. With just a fraction of a percentage point over 50% of the stock then at his command, Twigg-Smith confronted his uncle and advised him to step down. A dumbstruck Lorrin P. Thurston took his nephew to court, but the suit was dismissed. In revenge, Thurston sold as much stock as he could to Copley...
Secretary McNamara says that the cost of developing the FB-111 would be a fraction of the $1.5 billion it would take to work up a totally new long-range bomber. The Air Force and its backers in Congress reply that a completely new "advanced, manned strategic aircraft" is needed for the mid-1970s, deride the FB-111 as an interim bomber that would not be even so effective as advanced versions of the B-52. The fight over the TFX, like the plane itself, seems to be entering a new phase...
...Paris' Palais Galliera last week, Daumier earned back the 12 francs, with interest, as the largest group of his works ever put up for auction went on the block. The 338 sculptures, drawings and lithographs were only a fraction of the collection of a French banker and founder of breweries through out North Africa named René Gaston-Dreyfus, 80, who began buying Daumiers before World...