Word: fractionals
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...come too late. In fact, the Senator's sell-by date seems to have passed in New Hampshire. A well-known neighbor, he has been carefully vetted by that state's hyper-sophisticated electorate and found wanting. Certainly, in a year when passion rules, Kerry hasn't shown a fraction of Dean's incredible vigor...
...Justice Department. Colin Blakemore, a professor of physiology at the University of Oxford whose medical research has relied on animal tests, was among several scientists threatened with assassination several years ago. Crude devices intended to injure have been sent to his home and office. The violence of a tiny fraction of animal-rights campaigners has stirred alarm even among fellow activists, who say it diverts attention from the real debate...
Recall elections should be binding if the turnout exceeds either some fraction of the turnout from the first election or a lesser fraction of the total population of the district. If this turnout is not achieved, the appropriate response should be to hold elections again, not to dismiss the recall petition as merely reflecting some fickle and unimportant whim...
...antidote. At a high-rise building in central Seoul, hundreds of debtors recently waited for interviews at a new government agency, the Credit Recovery Supporting Service, set up to help them reschedule their debt. So far 17,000 people have had their burden eased?a fraction of total defaulters. Meanwhile, in a dingy suburb across town, the agency holds 90-minute cash-management classes. The teacher, former banker Kim Seung Duck, loudly exhorts borrowers to embrace the habits of the rich by "loving money and saving." Under the white glare of fluorescent lights, middle-aged women scribble down his instructions...
Police say that their biggest worry is not the value of the currency - fake bills make up only a small fraction of the total number in circulation, they believe - but rather the possibility that vendors will stop accepting some bills. "We are still in the 'green' [i.e., safe] period," says Eduard Liedgens, head of anticounterfeiting at the Bavarian police and one of Germany's top fraud investigators. "It is not hurting the economy. But there is a problem of trust." Mindful of that threat, police in Eastern Europe - with the assistance of the European Union's law-enforcement branch, Europol...