Word: fractionals
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...government had to proclaim a new unit of currency, awkwardly named the milreis (mill-rayss), meaning a thousand reals. Now, after many more rounds of inflation, the basic currency unit is the cruzeiro (crew-zay-roo), and inflation is shriveling it too. Its present exchange value is a small fraction of a cent. The 1,000-cruzeiro bill, long Brazil's biggest bank note, is worth only a little more than...
...students of mostly Negro schools transfer to mostly white schools that have sufficient room. Open enrollment was pioneered in New York City, is used or will be starting in some form next September in Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, San Francisco and many smaller cities. Usually only a fraction of the eligible Negro students take advantage...
Cigarette advertising is an important fraction of the total revenue of most college newspapers and magazines. It often provides the money to permit a paper to be financially independent, a prerequisite for editorial freedom. In the Harvard CRIMSON last year cigarette advertising totalled more than $7,000, or almost ten per cent of all display advertising revenue. Without the cigarette contracts the CRIMSON might have been...
Although only a fraction participate, potentially about 450 mental patients could benefit through the summer program, LaMonte said. The Committee encourages volunteers to utilize whatever special skills they have in dealing with individual patients. "We do not try to fit volunteers into a definite structure," he said...
...Only a fraction of Venezuela's 7,000,000 people are Communists or Castroites. They stand little chance of toppling President Rómulo Betancourt by direct frontal attack. But they are persistent at sabotage and artful in harassment, hoping to prove that Betancourt cannot maintain order. So far, the tough old ex-revolutionary - who wants to be come his country's first freely elected President to survive his term - has been powerless to end the terrorism...