Word: fractionalism
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...fraction of the price, the council could have sought out stand-up’s rising stars like Nick Swardson (asking price: $7500) or Jim Gaffigan (asking price: $6500). Who’s Jim Gaffigan? Try this for a pitch: the “meow” scene in Super Troopers—he’s Mr. Larry Johnson sitting in the driver’s seat. Now that lends itself to some good marketing...
...shuttle pulled away. All was well in Dartboard-land, until some fraction of a second later, pothole number one passed beneath, then two and three. With each one, Dartboard’s vintage (read: rusty) Schwinn bounced violently. No, this was no easier way to get home; Dartboard’s fears of an evening bike ride down Garden Street were replaced with visions of his turquoise beauty jarring loose from its perilous mount and being crushed under the wheels of a crimson and white beast...
...lets qualified sellers drop out of a lease immediately. Naturally, it will cost you: so-called Instant LeaseRelease requires that you pay half your car's negative equity, which is the difference between the lease buy-out price and what the car is actually worth. It may be a fraction of what the dealer would charge, but you may want to think twice before driving down that road...
...health-care providers in California, Illinois, New York and Texas. They have anted up $1.5 million of their own funds to pursue the cases. More suits are being filed almost weekly, all with a similar complaint: that the hospitals are charging the uninsured grossly inflated prices, dispensing a tiny fraction of their revenues in charity care, engaging in abusive collection tactics and, in some cases, using accounting gimmicks to mask their wealth and enrich executives. "It offends my sense of justice that they've gotten away with this," Scruggs says in his gentle Mississippi drawl...
...city's south. You're free to browse acres of Tibetan trunks, Rajasthani cupboards and rolltop desks without nagging. And although Indian law prohibits the export of items more than 100 years old, if something truly venerable appeals, Sharma's carpenters will knock up an imitation for a fraction of the price...