Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much as $30 million. Worse, Boston depends more than any other major city on the property tax, but as a result of a statewide tax protest referendum enacted last November, the city must cut its property taxes by 15% a year until the rate is a small fraction of its present total. That means laying off 2,000 city employees by next month, 4,000 the following fiscal year. White knows the situation is grim enough to endanger him in politics. Says the former dark-horse presidential possibility, now a would-be survivor...
...matter how dazzling, heart transplants and mechanical hearts are last-ditch measures. They will save, at best, a tiny fraction of the lives now claimed by heart disease. Fewer than 50 heart transplants are done each year in the U.S., owing to the difficulty of finding donors, the unsolved problem of tissue rejection and the high cost (averaging...
...country could cope with the aftermath of a nuclear exchange, even if it could be left "limited," Lown says. In normal conditions, 20 to 30 burn victims would saturate Boston's health care facilities. Even the 200 intensive burn care beds in the United States couldn't support a fraction of Boston's burned, assuming that there was any way for rescue workers to enter the radioactive ruins to get them into the hospitals in the first place. "People would be left to die," he states...
...advertisers, commercials on cable TV offer a more specialized audience at a fraction of the cost of time on regular shows. A 30-second ad on one of the three dozen or more national networks that have grown up to service local cable channels costs only about $500, while the three major networks charge an average of $70,000 in prime time. And since cable TV can easily provide viewers with programs on 100 or more channels that carry only sports, for example, an advertiser can make a longer pitch on a single subject...
...years CBS was first in the ratings and looked as if it would be there forever. Then, in 1976-77, upstart ABC pulled ahead, where it stayed for three seasons. CBS retrieved the top spot by a fraction in 1980, and last week, with the final figures in for this season, it was undisputed champ again, with a Nielsen rating of 19.8, compared with ABC's 18.2 and NBC's 16.6. CBS had eight series in the top ten, leading off with Dallas and 60 Minutes, ABC had two, and poor NBC none at all. Even...