Word: fractionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy remains overheated in many sectors but is becoming perceptibly cooler. Industrial production fell by a fraction of a point in August, the first drop in a year. Retail sales continue sluggish. Storms prevail in the housing market. Private housing starts declined for the seventh straight month, and the scarcity and high cost of mortgage money assure that rough weather will persist. Interest rates on U.S. Treasury notes reached 8%, the highest in 110 years...
...harsh but strangely lovely land, home mainly to the grizzly, polar bear, wolverine, caribou, fox, Dall sheep and countless geese and ducks. Mushy and mosquito-plagued in summer, the North Slope area of Alaska is so cold in winter that metals become brittle and men work at a fraction of their normal efficiency. Yet, during the past year, a 140-mile-wide strip of this inhospitable country bordering the Beaufort Sea was the scene of frantic activity as more than a dozen big oil companies conducted seismic tests and drilled exploratory holes in preparation for Alaska's "Great...
...thirds that quantity. Don't attempt to substitute guesswork for arithmetic here, as a larger room will make students feel too important, and a smaller one may drive them away. At the first meeting inform your overflow crowd that it will be possible to admit only a small fraction thereof; then ask each applicant to submit a brief autobiography plus a 25 word statement on the subject " Why I'm anxious to take this course...
...meanwhile, Nixon is able to enjoy the luxury of his San Clemente estate, while paying only a fraction of what it would cost him to buy outright. To make it even more pleasant, the President is getting an estimated $75,000 golf course free. Local firms are building the small course (four greens, seven tees just behind the villa's swimming pool) at their own expense. At the same time, Nixon is adding his own distinctive touches to enhance the comforts of the house. Recent visitors noticed a new bulletproof glass wall beside the swimming pool and a sound...
...showed that a thin crystal, only one-tenth of an inch square, could carry 10,000 bits of information. Even the tiniest conventional computer circuitry, explained Bell Labs Vice President Jack A. Morton, is able to achieve only 10% of that density. In addition, the crystals need just a fraction of the power required by ordinary computers...