Word: fractionalized
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Well, not exactly everyone, but a sizable fraction of the student body. Economics is the largest undergraduate concentration, accounting for more than 15 percent of the senior class. Government is second, with almost 13 percent, and psychology is third, with over six percent...
...rigorous "40 Days of Purpose" programs. And it was streamed from his website in hopes of capturing some of the half-million church leaders Warren and his team claim to have trained in his theological and organizational tenets over the last quarter-century. Even if only a fraction of those sign on, the resources at the disposal of the PEACE plan will continue to mushroom...
...through to them." He says Burma desperately needs more boats and helicopters from abroad. Not even the nation's richest private donors - who include junta cronies like tycoon Tay Za, who was put on a U.S. sanctions list last year - have the means or expertise to meet even a fraction of the needs in far-flung delta areas...
...high tidal surge, flattening countless homes, the junta was still blocking much of the aid proffered by foreign nations. Although three U.S. military cargo planes were allowed to offload relief supplies in Rangoon, the World Food Program estimates that the amount of aid reaching storm victims is just a fraction of what's needed. Hundreds of international disaster experts are still awaiting visas to enter the country. Meanwhile, the junta's own relief efforts are painfully inadequate, with some army trucks delivering only rotting rice. Those who received the spoiled food are the lucky ones. In village after remote village...
...barely a trickle has gotten through. Hundreds of foreign aid workers have been denied visas and blocked from visiting the stricken areas. Shipments of food and medicine have been seized. After more than 10 days, the U.N. World Food Program said it had been able to deliver only a fraction of the food required for the emergency. "I've never seen anything like this," said Julio Sosa Calo, an official for the German relief group Malteser International. "We need a huge humanitarian response. What we're doing now is too little compared to the need...