Word: fractionals
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...resident of Eliot, I can safely say that for a large fraction of my fellow housemates, the game of Assassins dominates all activity for one week. The paranoia, the conspiring, the mad dashes to and from the dining hall—all of it adds up to quite the sporting event...
...estimates that approximately one-third of the experimental physics at Harvard is supercool. Because of such extreme coolness (Harris’ experiment runs at .3 degrees above absolute zero), the research hinges on first-rate apparatus. About two-thirds of the equipment is made from scratch, and a substantial fraction is made in-house at the shop next door by Stanley Cotreau. Harris described Cotreau as, “one of the few people at Harvard who is the absolute master of his domain.”Cotreau has been directing the shop since 1993 and has turned it into...
...officials warn that Iraqi oil revenues will cover only a small fraction of the cost of rebuilding Iraq, and Washington is hoping to persuade European countries to contribute generously. But EU officials say that while Europe would be willing to channel such aid through a UN authority, it would not fund an administration installed...
...largest problem with all the plans on the table is that only a fraction of the stimulus would arrive before July 2004. That means billions in tax cuts, and deficits, will be coming our way over the rest of the decade, when American economic prospects will be a lot rosier. Economic stimulus is supposed to be temporary. But it looks like the United States will have to endure a package of permanent measures: accelerating the implementation of the 2001 tax cut and slashing the dividend tax. As a result, any stimulus will not only be too late...
...liberated Afghanistan, the U.S.’s pledge to fund Iraq’s rebuilding and help alleviate its current humanitarian crisis is dubious at best. We should not let ourselves be duped again by public-relations farces like food airdrops that can only reach an insignificant fraction of the population...