Word: fractionals
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...thirds that quantity. Don't attempt to substitute guesswork for arithmetic here, as a larger room will make students feel too important, and a smaller one may drive them away. At the first meeting inform your overflow crowd that it will be possible to admit only a small fraction thereof; then ask each applicant to submit a brief autobiography plus a 25 word statement on the subject " Why I'm anxious to take this course...
...meanwhile, Nixon is able to enjoy the luxury of his San Clemente estate, while paying only a fraction of what it would cost him to buy outright. To make it even more pleasant, the President is getting an estimated $75,000 golf course free. Local firms are building the small course (four greens, seven tees just behind the villa's swimming pool) at their own expense. At the same time, Nixon is adding his own distinctive touches to enhance the comforts of the house. Recent visitors noticed a new bulletproof glass wall beside the swimming pool and a sound...
...showed that a thin crystal, only one-tenth of an inch square, could carry 10,000 bits of information. Even the tiniest conventional computer circuitry, explained Bell Labs Vice President Jack A. Morton, is able to achieve only 10% of that density. In addition, the crystals need just a fraction of the power required by ordinary computers...
...some ways the news resembles an iceberg. Each week only a fraction of what happens possesses importance and immediacy enough to capture both the mind and the headlines. This week TIME opens its survey of the week's news with a description of the pride and affection that marked the celebrations for the Moon Voyagers. Then follows the mystery that cloaks the Green Beret murder case in Viet Nam and the controversy of the Ted Kennedy case -where questions and speculation continue. Two violent conflicts also are dissected: one in Northern Ireland and the other on the Sino-Soviet...
...always been more than two. Well-educated, middle-and upper-class women usually want fewer children than poor women. But "on the average, all parents desire more children than the number required to maintain the population equilibrium." Birth control devices are already widely available to all but a tiny fraction of U.S. citizens. Smith declares, but -really effective population control cannot be achieved until there is a change in society's attitude toward procreation. As things now stand, social and institutional pressures tend to stigmatize the childless couple - not to mention the single person - as "abnormal." Smith concedes that...