Word: fractionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more freedom than the State Department finds in, say, Afghanistan, but how much more is difficult to say. Even when available, figures can be misleading. For example, estimates of the number of prisoners held without trial in the Philippines reach as high as 6,000, but only a small fraction (perhaps 500) qualify as "political prisoners," meaning nonviolent political opponents of the regime...
Whatever happens in the league, Harvard's season will end earlier than it should. "We play a fraction of the matches we could play, and go to a fraction of the tournaments we could go to because of a lack of funds," Martin says...
...from distant points, and efforts are under way to bring in more, it will probably be five years at least before any appreciable supplies of such fuel enter the U.S. to help warm homes and run factories. Even then the amount is unlikely to fill more than a small fraction of U.S. demand...
George Plimpton. There is a guy with limitless ambition, a fantasy-world of nearly comparable dimensions, but an endurance span no doubt just a fraction of that. What more would he have lavished during those off-the-field stretches than to share a cigar with Luis Tiant in the dugout, or to chop down wood with Carlton Fisk in the backyard of his New Hampshire home? The BSO marathon, by coincidence, offers an analogous plethora of outlandish non-musical premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with...
...Pathogenesis. Only an incredibly small fraction of all bacterial species can cause disease. The rest play essential roles in the cycle of nature. Infectious bacteria differ from each other in several distinct respects: infectivity (i.e., the infectious does, ranging from a few cells of the tularemia bacillus to around 10-6 of the cholera vibrio); specific distribution in the body; virulence (i.e., the severity of the disease produced); and communicability from one individual host to another. These attributes depend on the coordinate activity of many genes, which are capable of independent variation. For our discussion the distinction between the ability...