Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cancellation of flavors such as Bovinity Divinity and One Sweet Whirled, scoopers say they have encountered only a few Harvard students missing chocolate chip scoops this year. “Maybe I’d be more upset if I didn’t have to spend a fraction of my college tuition to pay for it,” says Matthew R. Schindel...
Though the University’s stake in Sinopec is just a fraction of the estimated $4.4 million in PetroChina stock that Harvard held prior to Monday’s divestment decision, Bhatnagar said “this has never been about the amount of money...
...Concerned and enlightened people like Sachs are the gems of humanity, and their endeavors to alleviate poverty and misery in underdeveloped countries are laudable. It is sad, however, that only a fraction of the funds raised for the poor actually reach them while the lion's share is devoured by rich politicians and bureaucrats running those poor nations. The generous people who donate money to break the vicious circle of poverty would be more successful if they spent time in the poor nations to supervise firsthand the use of their funds. Eradication of poverty is primarily a humanitarian task...
...Harvard lead lasted for just a fraction of the time referee Alex Dell had set aside to determine whether or not to allow Cavanagh’s goal. Darryl McKinnon feigned a shot from the right faceoff circle to freeze the Crimson defense, then shuffled the puck cross-ice to Mormina, who one-timed the feed past Grumet-Morris to retie the score after just 36 seconds...
...Last month, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder publicly expressed his opposition after media reports that 26,000 German butchers had lost their jobs when Polish subcontractors imported East Europeans to work for a fraction of German butchers' wages. The numbers may have been exaggerated, but the issue came up again last week, just before Schröder met political opponents at a "jobs summit" in Berlin. "We cannot allow service freedom if this leads to social dumping, and if it disregards the protection standards of employees," Schröder thundered...