Word: fractionalism
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...both the insurance and other resources available, the financial structure of Union Carbide is not threatened." The company would not reveal the source or the extent of its insurance protection against industrial accidents. Cigna, a Philadelphia-based financial-services company, disclosed that it could be responsible for a tiny fraction-no more than about $1 million-of Union Carbide's potential insurance claims. Said a Cigna spokesman: "Our exposure is minimal and certainly will have no effect on earnings...
Quite simply, officials say, Harvard is faced with a dilemma about how much it should do for the very small fraction of the undergraduates--approximately 50 out of 6500-who are disabled. What, in other words, is both necessary and economically reasonable to provide to meet the needs of these students...
...only a year's work has cracked the puzzle of linear programming by devising a new algorithm, a step-by-step mathematical formula. He has translated the procedure into a program that should allow computers to track a greater combination of tasks than ever before and in a fraction of the time...
...reluctance to censure the Japanese might encourage other nations to resume whaling. That could bring to an end the decade-long effort to save sperm whales from depletion. In Hasui's view, that is not a problem because, he says, the annual Japanese catch is a tiny fraction of the estimated 200,000 sperm whales in the oceans. Nor is there a substitute for the whale: in Japan, whalemeat is a prized delicacy...
Radcliffe's investment in companies who do business in the apartheid regieme amounts to only 2 percent of its endowment, a tiny fraction compared to the 19 percent of Harvard's $2.3 billion endowment. Radcliffe Treasurer Louis Morrell estimates that Radcliffe has a total of $1 million invested in companies operating in South Africa, including Baxter Travenol, Eastman Kodak, and Schlumberger...