Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wheat sale seemed like a good idea. It would cut the nation's 1.2 billion-bushel wheat surplus-if only by 75 million or 100 million bushels. It would narrow the U.S.'s $5 billion deficit in the balance of payments-if only by a small fraction. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, an opponent of any deal with the Reds, was for this one. So was Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. So were Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen Ellender and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley. Even Barry Goldwater told...
...time trials to decide starting positions. A gasp went up when the announcer gave his speed: an average of 109 m.p.h. for the short one-mile track, almost 3 m.p.h. better than the fastest ever posted by an Offy at Trenton. Then came Clark, just a fraction faster to set still another record...
...government had to proclaim a new unit of currency, awkwardly named the milreis (mill-rayss), meaning a thousand reals. Now, after many more rounds of inflation, the basic currency unit is the cruzeiro (crew-zay-roo), and inflation is shriveling it too. Its present exchange value is a small fraction of a cent. The 1,000-cruzeiro bill, long Brazil's biggest bank note, is worth only a little more than...
...students of mostly Negro schools transfer to mostly white schools that have sufficient room. Open enrollment was pioneered in New York City, is used or will be starting in some form next September in Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, San Francisco and many smaller cities. Usually only a fraction of the eligible Negro students take advantage...
Cigarette advertising is an important fraction of the total revenue of most college newspapers and magazines. It often provides the money to permit a paper to be financially independent, a prerequisite for editorial freedom. In the Harvard CRIMSON last year cigarette advertising totalled more than $7,000, or almost ten per cent of all display advertising revenue. Without the cigarette contracts the CRIMSON might have been...