Word: fractionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas L. Pitts, secretary-treasurer of the California A.F.L.-C.I.O., accused growers of acting "like pampered chil dren sitting back with a steady barrage of crybaby pleas that their crops are about to rot. If they would demonstrate only a fraction as much interest in their workers as they do in their crops, the labor problem would evaporate...
...NAVY. Of the Navy's 667,000 men, only a fraction are presently involved in either Viet Nam or the Dominican Republic. Some 27,000 of the Seventh Fleet's 64,000 men are on duty in the South China Sea and 9,900 men of the Second Fleet's complement of 20,000 are stationed in the Caribbean. Elsewhere, the Navy has the Sixth Fleet, with 50 ships, 200 planes and 25,000 men in the Mediterranean, and the First Fleet, with 90 ships, 420 planes and 60,000 men in the Pacific...
...Faculty Committee on the Houses voted last Wednesday to extend House parietal hours to midnight on Saturday evenings after home football games. The Committee thus restored to the large fraction of Harvard undergraduates who ignore football games the privileges they would ordinarily have had if another large fraction did not ignore them. Hurrah...
...Pinch. To the camponês, no price is too steep to escape the misery of his own backward land, where full-time jobs are scarce and wage scales a fraction of those in France. Since 1959, nearly 150,000 peasants have emigrated to France-most of them illegally. The majority live in squalor in such growing slum areas as the Melun shantytown on the outskirts of Paris. Faithfully, they send large parts of their paychecks home: last year their remittances added nearly $40 million to Dictator Antonio Salazar's economy...
...real difficulty comes when they go on to these specialized topics. But in this instance, a simple expansion of the social studies staff would do little to solve the problem. It would clearly be impossible to add enough members of the staff to cover even a fraction of the particular problems which people will want to do research on; and even with a growth in tutors, outside help will be necessary. Admittedly this raises problems (as it does for people in other departments who must go outside for assistance); but since it is inherent in the organization of the University...