Word: fractionals
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...anything, not aggressive enough. While Bush laments the president's decision not to use ground troops, McCain bemoans that "most Americans cannot see the connection between our security and Mr. Milosevic's crimes." Never mind that these crimes, according to a recent U.N. report, resulted in only a tiny fraction of the casulaties claimed by Secretrary of Defense William S. Cohen...
...long career as an executive and later as a consultant, Jim Hamm oversaw operations in factories along the U.S.-Mexico border. He always wondered how the maquiladora workers managed to make ends meet on incomes that were a fraction of their American counterparts'. One day, while visiting friends, Hamm stumbled on a shelf of anthropology textbooks--and was hooked. At first he nourished his voracious interest with books alone. Later he began taking anthropology courses at the University of New Hampshire. Four years ago, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts. He has an advantage over...
...WHITE-NAPED MANGABEY HOME Ghana, Ivory Coast POPULATION 2,000 to 3,000 --So common in the 1950s that it was considered a crop pest, it is found in only a fraction of the forests it once roamed...