Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps most troubling to the scientists is the fact that plants and animals are disappearing faster than they can be found and described. Naturalists have cataloged 1.6 million species, a small fraction of the estimated 4 million to 30 million that remain undiscovered. While most of these unknown species are insects, even a creature as garrulous and brightly colored as a parakeet of the genus Pyrrhura (its species name has not yet been assigned) eluded researchers until it was first sighted in Ecuador in 1980. "No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order...
...have real value," he says, "companies that we would be proud to own." Says E. John Rosenwald, an executive at Bear Stearns, a New York brokerage firm, and a Tisch family friend: "He's not a herd follower." Last year, for example, Tisch bought seven oil supertankers for a fraction of what it would have cost to build them. He is betting that the distressed oil industry will eventually rebound. Tisch is self-deprecating about his financial ability. "I've been lucky," he shrugs...
...Homo sapiens fans, the Iceland episodes will be far too short--they are a mere fraction of the 43-chapter epic. The book has a variety of heroes and villains in its complex weave of plot strands, but the diffuse locales and the lack of an appealing main character make for a somewhat choppy narrative. Intrigues within the Politburo are interspersed with tense moments in the control rooms of submarines deep in the Atlantic, arguments among analysts in Scotland, daring assaults by fighter pilots on satellites, feats by covert commandos and battlefield maneuvers by intrepid tank commanders. The tightly focused...
Cambridge almost never forecloses on a buildingunless the taxes owed on it exceed the property'sworth, said Philip Cyr, a city financial official.The club's debt of $135,000 to the city totalsonly a fraction of the building's $1 millionvalue...
...strength of the $1,995 PC, which had become an industry standard. Since then, however, a slew of small, feisty computer makers have stolen away a hefty chunk of IBM's business by building personal computers that run software written for IBM PCs but sell for a fraction of the cost. The sellers of these so-called IBM-compatibles, companies such as Leading Edge, Epson and Kaypro, have snared an impressive 36.4% of the personal-computer market, while IBM's share has fallen to 33%. Says John Roach, chairman of Tandy, which manufactures a $999 model: "1986 will...