Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the club members interviewed said they thought that only a small fraction of the thousand cards sent this year were so descriptive...
...first group are the platoons of super-heroes, Smurfs and toy-store transplants that fill the dial on Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons. In the second are those earnest after-school specials and occasional PBS offerings praised by critics and parents but seldom watched by more than a fraction of the youngsters who crowd in front of the set for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Square One TV, the new PBS mathematics series produced by the Children's Television Workshop, is not likely to beat out He- Man either. But it demonstrates at least one valuable lesson...
...hitherto undetected particle. If so, Rubbia would have his second Nobel-class discovery within two years. A discovery of this importance was so tempting, according to Taubes, that Rubbia wrote a paper on the apparent finding, rushed it to the journal Physics Letters before more than a ; small fraction of his team members could evaluate it, and gave the news to the press. Further analysis, some of it by Rubbia's own colleagues, showed that he had no basis for his contention...
...Washington. With domestic social programs tightly curtailed by Gramm-Rudman spending limits, few Congressmen can politically afford to support more overseas aid. Thus while the U.S. remains the world's largest single source of foreign giving, its contribution is the smallest among major industrial nations when measured as a fraction of gross national product...
...large fraction of the faculties throughout the nation are composed of professors tenured in the 1950s and 1960s in response to the expanding student enrollments of the baby boom generation. "If the mandatory age is uncapped when these professors reach retirement age in the next 12 years, they will clog up the tenure system," says Shattuck...