Word: fractionals
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Then there were the decorative arts: hard-stone (pietre dure) inlays, gems, tapestries. The tapestries in particular were a way of extracting the maximum visual punch from skilled labor: not only could they reproduce great designs at a fraction of the cost of painting, but they could also cover enormous surfaces with sumptuous effects. Monarchs loved them, setting up weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs - fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed...
...Hong Kong movie lover, seeing these movies fresh is like opening the treasure chest of Atlantis. First of all, they look great. The colors?glorious golds, bold reds?reveal all the splendor Shaw's set designers and costumers could contrive, though they worked on budgets a fraction of Hollywood's. The wide-screen format, even on a TV screen, restores each film to its original epic dimensions. We are reminded that Chang Cheh's macho melodramas were not just an anthology of fight scenes; they were sumptuous slices of Chinese history, rendered in loving period detail...
...patent system, companies would have no incentive to invest in researching and developing new drugs. After all, if they did develop the drugs and pay the high costs involved, other companies, which had not shouldered those research costs, could simply copy the new medicines and sell them at a fraction of the original price. To remedy this incentive problem, governments issue patents to the developers of new drugs. However, this solution only creates a new problem because patents give companies a state-protected monopoly over a drug. Since only one firm can produce a specific drug, it can charge exorbitant...
...Munch Museet Just a fraction of its 23,000-piece collection of Edvard Munch works is on show at any one time. Also on until Jan. 19: works by Picasso, Braque, Léger and Gris on loan from Stockholm's Moderna Museet. Tøyengata...
...Restricting hiring practices to a fraction of the population is an invitation of suicide,” he said. “Firms that discriminate just won’t survive...