Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yard freestyle, touching out Bulldog star Bob Townsend in a time of 2:02.9. Townsend led until the last turn, but after 200 yards he apparently thought the race was over (most freshman high school meets are swum over a 200 yard distance) and stopped for a fraction of a second...
...amount of money involved in purchasing the bonds would be only a small fraction of our foreign aid budget. The need for a forum of world opinion is apparent. Its decisions clearly effect the policy of the Soviet Union and other powers, providing a necessary softening of cold war frictions. Its subsidiary services have given invaluable aid to many underdeveloped countries. Most important, U.N. troops enforce a certain amount of peace and order where single power intervention would lead to large-scale war. Thus even at the cost of much inconvenience and expense, the United States must preserve...
...cord that hooked each of them up to a trolley loaded with complicated apparatus. Peter Schmidt, 18, and Lawrence Baldwin, 20, got out of their room only once a day, to walk a few steps down the hall and be weighed on a scale that is accurate to a fraction of an ounce. Even then, the trolley and tubes went with them...
...applied the same criticism to government-to-government foreign aid programs. Since a large amount of productive activity in underdeveloped nations in private hands, he said, the "relatively small fraction" of government-controlled enterprise can contribute only slightly to economic growth...
...industry will inevitably be harmed if the new program is enacted. To put them back on their feet, the Administration will propose tax relief and, if necessary, a program for retraining workers. But the President's economic advisers point out that imports compete with only a tiny fraction of U.S. industry; current competitive imports, valued at $5 billion, amount to about 1% of total U.S. production. And the Administration is sure that in the long run the economic growth inspired by lower tariffs here and abroad will more than take care of the domestic dislocations...