Word: fractionals
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...time to supplement the Bible with another canonical text: the United States Constitution. Americans should form a non-profit organization based on the Gideons model to raise money and distribute Constitutions in hotel rooms across the country. The health of American democracy will certainly benefit, even if only a fraction of travelers pick it up. And non-Christians will no longer have to settle for just a telephone book and a TV Guide...
...community relations, steam generation could potentially be relocated to another site (possibly across the river). Even if relocation proved too costly, an innovative renovation of the building might allow the space to be used for both steam generation and modern art since the current equipment only uses a fraction of the building...
...been estimated that the new Presidential Scholars program will affect 200 to 300 students—a promising number, but still just a fraction of the thousands of graduate students studying at Harvard. Furthermore, the program is funded for only three years. Harvard’s hope is that fund raising efforts will eventually allow for the program’s expansion. In November, Summers announced a new University Fund for Graduate Student Aid, for just this purpose. We hope this new initiative will induce wealthy alumni from across the University to help lessen the financial burden of graduate school...
...founding father of psychotherapy to a poor, eccentric cousin on the fringes of psychotherapeutic practice. "Classical analysis is a very, very small percentage of what is practiced in this country," says Dr. T. Byram Karasu, editor in chief of the American Journal of Psychotherapy. "It's almost a negligible fraction." Judith Beck believes psychoanalysis will die out in our lifetime. "Managed-care companies and insurance companies," she says, "are finally waking up and looking at research, and finding that it's not effective." Practically the only place patients actually lie down on couches anymore is in Woody Allen movies...
...Jackson's 2001 Invincible album, for example, was imported to China through official channels, after Sony Music removed several tracks with explicit lyrics to appease the Ministry of Culture. After the album flopped, large quantities of unsold European copies turned up on the mainland-uncensored and selling for a fraction of the price of official versions still on store shelves...