Word: fractionalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambitious is building a successor ship to Cousteau's beloved Calypso, which sank in Singapore in 1996. Calypso II will be 217 ft. long, powered by an innovative turbosail-diesel engine combination. If it is ever built, that is: the $2 million raised from donations so far is a fraction of the $150 million needed...
...accept women, and club level tennis remained a male sport." The Harvard Tennis Club has always welcomed undergraduates, both men and women, to try out for the club. Unfortunately, due to the limited resources and court time available to our team, we are only able to take on a fraction of the players who show interest and fill our team through competitive tryouts. Last year, a female player was one of the strongest who came out for the team. Jacqueline A. Newmyer '01 was a key member of the Harvard Tennis Club and played in several intercollegiate matches...
...every 100 new cars wouldn't start, Detroit would be a ghost town. But somehow Silicon Valley keeps booming despite the fact that a significant fraction of the computers it ships either don't work as advertised or don't work at all. In a new Windows magazine survey, some 87 percent of respondents reported that their computers booted up just fine. That sounds pretty good at first glance; but what it really means is that an astounding 13 percent of PCs are either dead on arrival or seriously maimed...
...calculate], you start with how many stars are out there, what fraction of the stars are enough like ours that there would be life," Leigh says. "Even if the odds are reasonably low, there are enough stars out there that it puts the probability up there...
Kids taking a laptop to college apparently aren't making the best use of their parents' investment. Only a small fraction of the high school class of 1998 is thinking of a career in the lucrative field of computer science, preferring business, education and health services. With a shortage of qualified computer workers for jobs that are expected to double in number by 2006, students would be wise to log on and make the grade...