Word: fractionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sinister drama, the Mafia's bloodletting accounts for only an insignificant fraction of the killings that occur every year in the U.S. The rising toll sometimes seems to validate H. Rap Brown's mordant dictum: "Violence is as American as cherry pie." In 1970 there were 16,000 criminal homicides in the nation-one every 33 minutes. With the carnage mounting-up 8% from the previous year and 76% over the decade-the U.S. is maintaining its long-held, unhappy distinction of leading advanced Western nations in the rate at which its citizens destroy one another. Philadelphia...
...artist-writer too much even to consider becoming a housewife. Luckily I began at a time when the market for illustrations was at its peak. By 1908 six of my cover designs had appeared on The Saturday Evening Post, but since I was paid only $60 each-a fraction of what the male artists received-I quit. When the market folded, due to the Depression, I switched to writing. My many books have sold well and long. Experience has led to this conclusion: Women who want to marry, should; they may have to have a job too, for money...
...Lincoln Child Development Center, where the registered nurse's child is enrolled. It is operated with funds from the Federal Government, the state and the local school district. The cost of caring for each child is estimated at close to $2,400 a year. Only a small fraction of that cost is met by parents, who pay fees that vary with their incomes. Those on welfare, like the nurse, pay as little as $15.60 per month, while a parent earning, say, $6,000 a year would be charged...
Senator Francis X. McCann (D-Cambridge), however, said Wednesday that PR violates the U.S. Supreme Court's "one man one vote" rule by forcing voters to make choices in order of preference. McCann said that under the PR system, the voter has only a fraction of one vote...
...demand for courses of women's studies is Large, and the two remaining courses on the subject are limited-enrollment seminars. The handful of Faculty members competent to teach about women can accommodate only a small fraction of the students eager to explore these areas. A poll taken at the end of Fjellman's course revealed overwhelming enthusiasm on the part of the 80 participants and a desire to purse the subject in more depth...