Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American sports fans will have a curious amnesia about the 1980 games. Not only were the U.S. athletes at home, but television coverage was patchy as well. There were snippets on the evening news and slightly longer reports on the morning talk shows, but, altogether, coverage was only a fraction of the 150 hours NBC had planned before it withdrew from its contract to televise the games as part of the U.S. protest...
...finance members' projects. "A good grant application takes nine months from raw idea to finished application," says Lightman. "An economist tells me that we need ten applications pending all the time in order for the institute to stay alive." I.R.H. also administers the grants, charging only a fraction of what universities charge for administrative overhead...
That was when the Anglos saw, with horror, that somehow the Cuban fraction had risen from 20 per cent to 45 per cent of the population. Miami had changed from a city with a charming Latin quarter to a Latin city. In the early '70s English-speaking Miamians began to grumble about losing control of "their" city. Today they say it louder. To an Anglo the Spanish language seems to be everywhere, far more prevalent thatn English. Everyone complains about receiving wrong-number telephone calls from "Latins" (a favorite euphemism for Cubans). In fact, one of the less obnoxious ethnic...
...health care since 1917. Says Washington, D.C., Internist William Knaus, who lived in the U.S.S.R. for 18 months and is the author of a forthcoming book, Inside Russian Medicine: "They took a country that was 200 years behind the rest of the world and provided the basics at a fraction of what we charge. They eliminated epidemics. Life expectancy is up and infant mortality is down. That has to be judged a success...
...studies are hard on teacher morale. Sociologist James S. Coleman's celebrated 1966 survey of pupil achievement seemed glum news for teachers. That study argued that family background made almost all the difference, and that qualities of schools and teachers, good and bad, accounted "for only a small fraction of differences in pupil achievement." Later researchers, examining Coleman's work, found that pupils do seem to learn more when they receive more hours of instruction...