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...finish line came about five strokes before MIT would have passed the Crimson, and the Harvard lightweights had won their first race of the season--by a fraction of a seat...
...while the polls indicated that the Left might win anyhow. But a sufficiently large fraction of voters who had deserted the Majority in 1974, '76 and '77 for the Socialists, returned to the Right to ensure its victory. They could not bring themselves to support a coalition of bitter enemies engaged in fierce mutual recriminations and incapable of agreeing on a platform. Even though the French youth from 18 to 21 voted for the first time, the Left did a shade worse than in the Mitterrand-Giscard duel of 1974. And so, the C.P. is back in the political ghetto...
...suppose, that she couldn't get Johann Bach to waltz, either. Moreover, any self-respecting mystery buff can tell you that a "mashie-niblick," that jolly skull-splitter, is a five-iron; Bloomfield ludicrously brandishes a driver. All this may sound like nit-picking, but these errors are a fraction of those actually committed, and they all add up to a general impression of carelessness...
Early computer projections had said leftist forces would score a fraction over 50 percent of the vote, less than pre-election polls had predicted they would receive...
...Neurosurgery, they drill a small hole in the patient's skull and insert a piston so that its base rests on the brain's outer casing. Built into the piston is a miniature induction tuner. If pressure inside the cranium increases, it pushes the piston up a fraction of an inch, thus transmitting a signal to the telemetry receiver at the patient's bedside...