Word: fractionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transport 60,000 people per hour. Travel by electric-powered train is 23 times safer than by car, 2½ times safer than by plane-and largely without sins of emission. The equipment for a revitalized rail system needs only to be rescued from shocking decrepitude at a fraction of the cost of the car-plane juggernaut...
...them are turning up behind the loan desks and in the executive suites of some unconventional ones. The National Bankers Association counts 53 banks round the country that are owned and operated by nonwhites, more than triple the number a decade ago. Though that is still a tiny fraction of the nation's 14,000 commercial banks, the growth is accelerating; federal and state authorities are considering charter applications for about 40 proposed "minority" banks.* Indeed, some Government officials now worry that minority banking might be spreading too rapidly, extending the danger that shakily financed institutions will founder...
...Only a fraction of the energy that went into the study of abstract expressionism has been spent on Mondrian's small circle of U.S. disciples, such as Fritz Glarner, Ilya Bolotowsky and Burgoyne Diller. Their aloof and rigorous art could never have been a popular recipe; but allowing for that, and for the fact that they labored beneath the almost overpowering shadow of Mondrian himself, the silence about such pioneers is still remarkable. For though the public did not look closely or often at their work, later artists did; the "mondrianists" were one of the secret influences on 1960s...
...Tony Jenkin's technical foul shot, after an illegal sixth timeout called by a Big Green player, with zero time on the clock produced Sanders's first coaching win. (Incidentally, both the AP and this reporter are guilty of stating no time remained in that game, when actually a fraction of a second was left before the buzzer...
Harvard's Lou Silver called time out after Goldson's layup but the officials ruled the Crimson would only have a fraction of the last second to try to tie the game. A full-court in bounds pass from Silver to Bill Cary went away as the buzzer sounded...