Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proportional representation systems generally require that a candidate receive only a certain fraction of the votes-less than a majority-in order to be elected...
Each man in such an action sees only a fraction of what happens. Yet many such personal recollections were chilling ones. "Everyone was scared going in?we thought there'd be heavy enemy troops there," recalls Charles...
...street over and completely destroying the stretch of Waller Creek I described. Even with the expansion he didn't have to destroy the creek (which he wanted to make into a concrete drainage ditch): the architecture students had drawn up an alternate plan that would have caused only a fraction of the destruction. Even if one considers the 14,000 seats justified, it's hard to justify ruining the creek...
Mysterious Surge. The danger lasted for only a fraction of a second. As soon as the A.C. circuits failed, three batteries delivering direct current took over automatically, bringing the Apollo spacecraft's vital systems back to life. Meanwhile, the mighty Saturn rocket was blasting away unaffected, lifting the astronauts toward orbit. After quickly resetting circuit breakers that had been sprung by a mysterious surge of current, the astronauts managed to restore A.C. power. "We're weeding out our problems here," Conrad reported calmly. "I'm not sure we didn't get hit by lightning." Neither were...
...secret of the system is timing. To form the electronic bubbles, each participating plane must send brief radio pulses-none longer than a tiny fraction of a second-in an assigned order of rotation at exact three-second intervals. The system demands such accuracy that all the planes must carry atomic clocks, which are precisely synchronized to a master timepiece on the ground or aboard one of the planes. Theoretically, CAS is so fast and efficient that it can safely handle as many as 2,000 planes over an area of more than 61,000sq...