Word: fractionals
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...Peru because of a law requiring a cutoff of funds to countries that are more than a year in arrears. But his policy might set a dangerous precedent: if such debtors as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, which together owe more than $200 billion, were to limit payments to a fraction of export earnings, many large U.S. banks might face a squeeze on profits...
Many of these experimental weapons, of course, may never find their way into the American arsenal. Some may prove impractical, while others may fail to win congressional funding. Only a fraction of past DARPA projects have been deployed. But the 27-year-old agency, which helped develop the cruise missile and the Stealth bomber, has had a powerful impact on strategic thinking. Among the sophisticated systems now under...
...Cocoon, the sci-fi fantasy that has become one of the top summer box-office hits. Offscreen, however, veteran Actor Don Ameche, 77, seems already to have found his own fountain of youth. He reports he performed the movie's swan dives and jackknives in "all but a fraction of a shot." His secret: "a lot of hard work," including a daily five-mile walk and a 20-to-25-minute aerobics workout most mornings. For 35 years he has limited himself to a one-meal-a-day diet. Ameche would rather spend more time with his six children, eleven...
...flooding was only the latest cruel irony of the severe famine that has plagued Africa. While Western donors have shipped hundreds of thousands of tons of food into the region, only a fraction has found its way to those in need. Civil wars and woefully inadequate transportation systems have prevented the aid from reaching the hungry. Without increased shipments to the interior, says Salim Lone, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa, "we fear that 100,000 Sudanese will die in the next three months...
Classical-music lovers seem to agree. DVDs aren't yet as big a factor as classical CDs, which themselves represent only 3% of the overall recorded-music market; but allowing for the fact that they are a fraction of a sliver, DVDs are gaining fast and showing great potential. "They've put a jump start in the aspect of the business that needed it," says Christopher Roberts, president of Universal Classics and Jazz International...