Word: fractionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of the LEAA has been one of waste and mismanagement. A House subcommittee investigation last July turned up testimony that only a fraction of the $860 million appropriated by Congress as federal anticrime funds had actually reached the local agencies for which the money was intended. One witness described in detail the misuse of LEAA funds in Alabama; for example, $117,247 earmarked for a police-cadet program was used to pay college tuition for children of high-ranking officials in the state's department of public safety and their friends...
...Health Manpower Shortage: 1971-2000, Gordon's report is probably the most exhaustive inventory of global health resources ever undertaken. It is also the most depressing, for it shows that most nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America are capable of providing health care for only a minuscule fraction of their populations. Indonesia, for example, has just one doctor for every 28,000 people. The African continent, which increased its medical manpower by 2% between 1960 and 1967, still has but one physician for every 9,700 individuals. Southeast Asia has a ratio...
...authorities arrive at heroin addiction figures? They count known habitual users, of course, such as those who are arrested and those who sign up for treatment programs. But such figures account for only a fraction of the addict population. To arrive at an overall estimate, officials in many cities project from the number of overdose deaths, one commonly used criterion being 200 addicts for each fatality. A new study in Washington, D.C., indicates that because some overdose deaths have gone undetected, the number of active users may be even higher than previously estimated...
...goes with the latest invasion. Foreign capital and companies have been pouring into Luxembourg ever since the Nazis left. By now almost all the country's major industries are foreign-owned. One-fifth of its residents are aliens. Only a fraction of the $6 billion on deposit in Luxembourg's 41 banks belongs to its citizens, and only one of the banks belongs principally to Luxembourgeois. Yet the country claims the Common Market's highest per capita G.N.P.: $2,900, up 10% from last year. Its residents own proportionately more cars, radios and phones than...
...Claudette Colbert's in It Happened One Night. In at least one part of the country, however, it has not proved a salubrious mix. There have been 73 reported assaults on women hitchhikers in the Washington, D.C., area so far this year. These are probably only a fraction of those that have occurred...