Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unmanned space exploration is not as sexy to the public; it has no life-and-death drama, no derring-do, no right stuff. Yet many experts believe it is more valuable to scientific discovery, and at a fraction of the cost. While the space program seemed to most of the public to be languishing in the late 1970s, with no astronauts being sent aloft, NASA was thrilling scientists and astronomers with its unmanned space expeditions...
Martella's case for a conspiracy trial, which is expected to begin some time next year, repeatedly suggests that prosecutors follow up on his findings. Only a fraction of the evidence gathered by Martella during nearly three years of investigation has been made public...
Reagan carried the staunchly Democratic Bay State by a fraction of a point in 1980, when then-President Jimmy Carter and Independent candidate John Anderson split the liberal vote...
...Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. In its City home at the Barbican Theater in London, or on its country estate at Stratford-upon-Avon, the R.S.C. may perform as many as five plays a week. The company's tours of North America, though, have displayed only a fraction of its versatility: one play at a time. So the R.S.C.'s twin bill of Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano de Bergerac, now on Broadway for a ten-week run, offers the American theatergoer a rare opportunity to see the world's top rep company...
...writes that corporations can do more good in South African than out of it. He fails to realize that these corporations employ less than one percent of the Black labor force and the work place reforms which he encourages affect only that small fraction of the exploited. He fails to realize that the incredibly high profits which keep U.S. corporations attracted to South Africa are the direct results of the cheap labor supplied by the country's Blacks. He fails to realize that U.S. corporations therefore have a stake in maintaining the apartheid regime. He fails to realize that...