Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some ways the news resembles an iceberg. Each week only a fraction of what happens possesses importance and immediacy enough to capture both the mind and the headlines. This week TIME opens its survey of the week's news with a description of the pride and affection that marked the celebrations for the Moon Voyagers. Then follows the mystery that cloaks the Green Beret murder case in Viet Nam and the controversy of the Ted Kennedy case -where questions and speculation continue. Two violent conflicts also are dissected: one in Northern Ireland and the other on the Sino-Soviet...
...always been more than two. Well-educated, middle-and upper-class women usually want fewer children than poor women. But "on the average, all parents desire more children than the number required to maintain the population equilibrium." Birth control devices are already widely available to all but a tiny fraction of U.S. citizens. Smith declares, but -really effective population control cannot be achieved until there is a change in society's attitude toward procreation. As things now stand, social and institutional pressures tend to stigmatize the childless couple - not to mention the single person - as "abnormal." Smith concedes that...
...given the very mixed consequences of the proposal, it is quite possible to reach the conclusion that rent control would do more harm than good. This, more than the fabled dollars of landlords, was perhaps the difference between four votes for rent control and five votes against it. A fraction of the pressure exerted over the rent control issue could easily give five votes in favor of other measures to alleviate the housing crisis...
...bill before the Senate was S.2546, "authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 1970 for military procurement, research and development." The total amount involved was more than $20 billion, but only a fraction of that sum was at issue right now: $759.1 million for the first steps in deployment of the Nixon Administration's Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile defense system. After months of inconclusive hearings and angry debate, and publication of a spate of weighty books on ABM by civilian defense scholars,* the Senate settled in for its toughest fight over a military bill in memory...
Dent softly denies all, saying that he wishes he had a fraction of the power attributed to him. "There's just a bunch of people over there at HEW," he told TIME Correspondent Loye Miller, "who, every time they see something coming they don't like, scream it's ole Strom Thurmond and Harry Dent." He insists that he serves only Richard Nixon, not Strom Thurmond, and that his real duties are mainly mundane matters of political coordination and patronage. One example: to steer Government legal work to Republican lawyers. "When I was practicing back in Columbia...