Word: fractionals
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...tiny fraction of what we make," Kelly admits. "But making the start is what counts. All this is part of building up our brand and our presence...
...economic terms, it's barely a snowflake. The gay and lesbian couples coming to Vermont to wed are but a tiny fraction of the 4 million visitors the state attracts each year. What's significant is that in some Vermont towns, civil unions have become a part of the fabric of everyday life. In Brattleboro, a bucolic community of 12,000 residents in liberal southern Vermont, there were 292 civil unions from July to December 2000--the same number as there were straight marriages for the whole year. Even the Chamber of Commerce is a one-stop referral service. Along...
...from the spying eyes of the U.S., which would probably bomb you to smithereens if it found out you were even building such a capability, and carries a return address that would see your whole country incinerated if you ever dared fire one. On the other hand, for a fraction of the cost you could deliver it in a suitcase, or put in on a Piper Cub, or sail it into a U.S. harbor on a fishing boat. Suicide bombing may not be part of U.S. military culture, but it's not hard to find jihad-kamikazes in the "rogue...
Equally unconvincing is PSLM’s insistence that $10 million is a small fraction of Harvard’s annual budget. While this sum may seem insignificant when viewed as a portion of the University’s overall expenditures, the absolute value of $10 million is nevertheless enormous—especially when one considers the academic work these dollars support. Are we really to think that Harvard serves society best by devoting $10 million to create marginal improvements for a couple thousand employees instead of, say, using that money to fund cancer research...
...message may be getting through. Last month Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb slashed the price offered to African countries for anti-AIDS "cocktails" to a fraction of what's charged in industrialized countries. One Bristol-Myers AIDS drug, Zerit, now costs just $54 a year in Africa; in the U.S., patients pay $3,589. This month, six other firms assured U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan they too would continue lowering prices. But at a conference in Norway last week with officials from the World Health Organization and World Trade Organization, some industry leaders resisted calls for further discounts. Said Bill...