Word: fractionals
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...million inhabitants have just one-fifth the wealth of Poland's 38 million. And because Ukraine was late in starting a large-scale privatization program, and is nowhere near completing it, the amount of foreign direct investment into the country - about $1.4 billion last year - is just a fraction of the amount that has flowed into Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic since the early 1990s. Thus, how Yushchenko's government handles firms such as Kryvorizhstal is a "critical issue," says Julian Exeter, a senior economist and Ukraine specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ebrd) in London...
...address the plight of the poorest of the poor, whose societies are destabilized by extreme poverty. The $16 billion represents 0.15% of U.S. income, just 15˘ on every $100 of our national income. The share devoted to helping the poor has declined for decades and is a tiny fraction of what the U.S. has repeatedly promised, and failed, to give...
...truth is that if [Senior Gift Plus] did not exist, these same members would not have dedicated even a minute fraction of the amount of energy to create a site or do anything related to those black Africans dying in Darfur—parody is not a buffer for insult,” Adjah wrote in an e-mail...
...number of victims who have been rescued is appallingly small, compared with the number of forced prostitutes brought into the US each year. Only 153 trafficking investigations were open as of April 2004 at the Department of Justice, a tiny fraction of the number of slaves who still live in this country...
...comes in with 25 years of chronic pain," says Fishman, "I might sit with them for 90 minutes to get the beginning of the story, to really understand what's happening. The insurers would rather pay me $1,000 to do a 20-minute injection than pay me a fraction of that to spend an hour or two talking with a patient...