Word: fractionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Jake McCandless's squad has only a 1-2-1 record in league play 2-3 overall the Tiger defense is second in the Ivies. The Tigers are only a fraction of a yard behind leader Columbia in total defense, giving up only 294 total yards per ball game...
...great symphonies after 1800. Between Bach's time and our own, instruments were generally engineered to be louder and more precise in pitch. Those listening to a cantata in the 1730's were not steeped in a tradition of massive sound; the scale of volume-production then was a fraction of what it is now. The result is a real-scale performance of old music that may sound hopelessly small to many listeners. The Richter approach presents Bach in terms agreeable to a majority of people...
...explanation from the complainant about the basis of selection in complaints where only a small fraction of the participants in a disruption are named...
...Secretary of the Air Force oversees the bombing of of Indochina between meetings of the Board of Overseers. Harvard engineering professors moonlight with war contractors. The University doubles as one of Cambridge's biggest landlords while giving the cits payments in lieu of taxes that amount to only a fraction of what it should pay were it taxed equiably. The hithert faceless men of the Governing Boards, who exercise almost absolute power over the affairs of the University, turn out to be successful corporate executives and lawyers, hardly the types of individuals one can easily contemplate marvelling at the beauty...
...drugs is turning out to be more complex and difficult than Washington had at first imagined. The 111-page report, prepared by Nixon's five-man Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control, concedes that despite greatly increased surveillance, the U.S. was able to seize only "a small fraction" (roughly 8%) of the estimated ten tons of heroin that reaches the U.S. each year. There was no reason to believe, the report continued gloomily, that the international drug traffickers will lack "adequate supplies" in the future...