Word: fractionalized
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...undergrads last academic year—the highest level since 1999-2000, and the second-highest level over the past 20 years.The most common grade at Harvard since 1989-1990 has been an A-minus. Those almost-stellar marks accounted for 25.0% of all grades last year.And the fraction of failures among all undergraduate grades remained at a two-decade low of 0.4 percent.Gross wrote that “grade compression continues to be a concern,” and he urged Faculty members to discuss the trend “at the departmental level.”But Mansfield...
Strauss said he agreed with Swensen’s view that Harvard’s in-house structure is a problem, and suggested that Harvard would have no trouble finding qualified people, especially alumni, who would manage the endowment for a fraction of the multi-million dollar salaries HMC managers have earned...
...example, “at Stanford they will teach a fraction of what they teach here,” Rosenblum said...
...overall economy than previously thought. And industrialization is taking a toll: several industries, including steel and automobiles, have been growing so rapidly that they now have problems of overcapacity. Still, with 300 million rural laborers in China eager to join the industrialization push for pay that's a fraction of what Americans or West Europeans earn, the downward pressure on wages and jobs worldwide is likely to continue. Just last week, Ford announced it will lay off up to 30,000 workers and close 14 plants in the U.S. in a huge restructuring to shore up its finances. Such drastic...
...Albert Fournier Amiens, France I am sick and tired of seeing bono in the news posing as a superhero saving the poor. The world is full of organizations and unknown individuals who could achieve considerably more than Bono has in the fight against poverty if they were granted a fraction of the media coverage that self-promoting rock stars get. Ali Alpkaya Ankara Seldom does a written work come along that truly deserves to be in every library and on every bookshelf. Your Persons of the Year issue is one such example and should be recommended to all as essential...