Word: fractionalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Newspapers will be more personalized. The average reader of a newspaper reads a fraction of all of the content contained in each edition. This translates to lots of wasted paper. Currently paper costs are low and personalization costs are high so this waste can exist. But as the technology develops, newspapers will be able to print different editions that cater to individual tastes. This trend has already begun as newspapers have developed regional editions with varying content. On a more personal scale, the Minnesota Star Tribune allows subscribers to have some choice as to what sections of their paper they...
...declaration of war in 1917 reduced TheCrimson to its knees as it struggled to put out adaily paper with a fraction of its previous staff.Former Crimson President W. H. Meeker '17 led thepaper's pressure for war, and was one of the 15editors who died in the trenches of France. Thepaper stopped publishing on June 7, 1918, butcontinued in the fall as a weekly, published bygraduate students. In January it returned to adaily schedule, and the business board slowlybegan to pull the paper...
...fraction of those in attendance at a SDSmeeting on April 8, 1969, decided to occupy abuilding the next day. Shortly before noon onApril 10, they did so, ejecting the deans inUniversity Hall and renaming the building "CheGuevara Hall...
...directorial estrangement goes far beyond his own character. Through both his writing and directing, Allen systematically destroys any chance for his lead actresses, specifically Judy Davis and Kirstie Alley, to do any acting at all. Instead, he forces them into ugly, pathetic, caricatured roles not worthy of a fraction of their talent. Davis, a brilliant actress, is wasted as the strung-out, borderline-psychotic ex who comes to Harry's apartment looking for retribution. In Allen's 1992 Husbands and Wives, she delivered a devastatingly accurate performance in a not dissimilar role; here, she may as well be Sabrina...
Astoundingly, junior guard Mike Beam grabbed a second offensive rebound--Harvard had only seven all game--but his lay-up left his hand a fraction of a second after the final buzzer sounded...