Word: fractionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...especially serious setback because 200,000 Negro votes have been registered in the past year. Chicago Negroes have traditionally voted Democratic, and Percy's inability to offer them an attractive alternative to Kerner in a year when Negroes are generally wary of Republicans apparently dooms him to a smaller fraction of the vote than he had anticipated...
...like the bargain rates. Most third market firms keep on hand an inventory of widely traded stocks (Weeden's inventory of 210 listed stocks amounts to about $12 million), which they offer to customers at a flat price based on the exchanges' last quotation plus a small fraction of a point-which nearly always amounts to less than a regular commission...
...privilege of watching a handful of men in silk spin madly around a banked oval track, for prizes ranging from a few bottles of wine to a brand-new DKW sedan. To beleaguered Berliners, the Six Days serves as carnival, communal songfest and emotional blowout. Only a fraction of the crowd is made up of racing fans, and as one old man said of the event, "It would be great if it weren't for those cyclists...
While the total size of the entering class rose by a fraction of a per cent from 1963, the number of Harvard graduates fell by 20 per cent, Toepfer said. The change reflects a drop of over 23 per cent in the number of Harvard men accepted last year, against a decline of only nine per cent in the number of Harvard applicants...
Unless population growth is controlled. Revelle warned, "people who live in desperate poverty and misery will constitute the overwhelming fraction of the world's population." Prosperity in Europe and the United States may then create "an almost impossible situation," he added...