Word: fractionalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a reason for this change. We live in a nation where a tiny fraction of the population controls the vast majority of the wealth. Our economic classes have become so polarized that the rich can safely forget the concerns of the poor, with whom they have little or no interaction...
...site is more choked by red tape than Rocky Flats, in part because of its severe contamination problems. Plutonium is so toxic that inhaling a fraction of a gram can be fatal. At Rocky Flats there are 14 tons of this silver-gray metal spread all over the place. Aging buildings are tainted by plutonium spills from leaking pipes, valves and containers, and from compartments known as "infinity rooms" because their level of radioactivity is so high. Barrels of radioactive waste are stacked 15 ft. high. Fields contaminated with radioactive oil are covered by only a layer of asphalt...
Making Harvard students aware of the risks is no small task. Although a substantial percentage of the student body regularly use both e-mail and the World Wide Web, many aren't fully aware of the risk of making ID photos publically available. The other fraction of the student body who don't use the Internet probably aren't even aware of the possibility of having an on-line facebook. I'm convinced if people understand the consequences of an on-line facebook, they will overwhelmingly support this Initiative, regardless of the risk. The challenge is convincing the administrators...
...says Chaumet sold watches and jewelry at inflated prices to a shell company in Switzerland called Lausanne Investments; he says the sales allowed Chaumet to get poorly selling merchandise off its books without showing a loss. (Thousands of watches were later sold to dealers in the U.S. at a fraction of their inventory value, according to sources with direct knowledge of the transactions.) Chaumet's 1993 and 1994 financial statements, filed in a French commercial court, refer to the company's transactions with Lausanne but do not reveal who owned or controlled...
...food is swallowed, relaxes or operates inefficiently, allowing stomach contents to back up. In other parts of the world, most people accept it as a fact of life--and tough it out. In the U.S., says Dr. John Walsh, former president of the American Gastroenterological Association (A.G.A.), "only a fraction of people with heartburn take antacids or other treatments. Now companies are telling consumers that this is something they ought to treat...