Word: fractionalized
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...daunted. It’s a very big job, and it’s been very well done in the past by Peter Buck, so I’m just hoping to do a fraction as well as he’s done,” said Shapin, who has written for The New Yorker and regularly contributes to the London Review of Books...
...your prerogative,” Tannenwald said. “But that’s probably step number 10 on the solution list. It makes much more sense to talk to the professors, to talk to your TFs.” But Kline said that it was unclear what fraction of students who skip are doing so out of protest. “An ‘unoffficial boycott’ seems to me [a] paradox,” Kline wrote. “How it is to be distinguished from mere absence, or laziness?” Both Frieden...
...Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 noted in The Wall Street Journal in 2004, the savings in the premium may even exceed the increase in deductible, reducing overall costs! In addition, this proposal reduces medical inefficiency because patients will be paying for a larger fraction of their regular care through their personal HSA. Therefore, patients will be less likely to overuse the system and will go to the doctor only when their need approaches the cost of the service. Moreover, HSAs are tied to individuals, not corporations. Consequently, shifting jobs won’t affect...
Weber’s website alleges that the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust is just a fraction of the widely accepted 6 million death toll. It also features the work of Holocaust deniers David Irving and Ernst Zundel. Interviews with Weber are posted on the National Vanguard website, and the Toronto Star reported in 1988 that he was a former news editor of the Vanguard’s periodical...
...thing, although Harvard University has a huge endowment, Harvard College and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) do not. FAS is currently in a budget deficit of around $40 million, and its endowment was only $10 billion (at the time the overall endowment was $22 billion), a fraction of Harvard’s nearly $26 billion total. In fact, Harvard ranks behind peer institutions like Princeton and Yale in terms of arts and sciences endowment per student. And in fiscal year 2004, just 13 percent of the College’s endowment was unrestricted in use. Harvard cannot legally...