Word: fractionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jets may be a novelty to most Vietnamese pilots, but combat is not. U.S. flyers usually spend a year in Viet Nam, then go home. The Vietnamese airmen have been fighting many years for a fraction of the pay ($80 a month for a first lieutenant v. about $1,000 for his American counterpart). Major Nguyen Va Le, commander of the V.N.A.F.'s 518th Squadron, knows he has flown at least 2,000 combat missions but adds, "I lost track after I reached 2,000." Colonel Nguyen Huy Anh has flown for so long that he is wise...
...directors, whose policy decisions will affect the entire membership. Brown has said he knows of no other corporation where such small percentage of the members can dictate to the majority. In fact, several years ago the stockholders made it even easier to achieve a quorum by reducing the fraction from ten per cent to five...
...change they By-Laws Committee must devise a means of deciding who votes for whom. If the object is to make the board more representative, should Harvard undergraduates vote only for their three representatives or should they also vote for the Radcliffe, M.I.T., and graduate candidates? Moreover, what fraction of the total vote should determine an 'election? If after the first few years the numbers of members actually interested enough to vote dwindles, as had happened at the Yale Co-op, will the method any longer be representative? The By-Laws Committee must weight quality against equality...
...blacks think that they must now reject all of their white friends?the Jew among them?in order to discover themselves. As a result, an ominous current of anti-Semitism has appeared to widen the breach between them and the Jew. While this ancient virus infects only a small fraction of the country's 22 million Negroes, the Jew knows from bitter experience that it can spread with distressing rapidity. At the same time, some latent anti-black feelings have come to the fore among Jews?symbolized by the half-casual, half-contemptuous Yiddish reference to the "schvartzes" (blacks...
Rather, it was a tragic error of the later Christian church to derive an anti-Semitic attitude from Jewish involvement in the case of Jesus of Nazareth. The church forgot that the prosecution was acting in absolute good faith, that even so it represented only a small fraction of the Jewish populace, and that responsibility for its role is not transferable. Indeed, to be anti-Semitic because of Good Friday is as ridiculous as hating Italians because a few of their forebears once threw Christians to the lions...