Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College. The increasingly competitive admissions crush at Andover does not mean that public schools are being abandoned: only 2-3% of U.S. schoolchildren go to the nation's 2,400 independent schools (more than half of them day schools). But within that fraction there is room for much experimentation, pacesetting, quality and growth. In Florida and Colorado, the number of independent schools has doubled in five years. In Manhattan, some schools have to turn down eight out of nine applicants...
...other goods worth a comparable amount at Cuban prices. The Kennedy Administration has been pressuring U.S. drug manufacturers to supply wares for the ransom package at nonprofit prices, but even so the total cost will run to millions of dollars. The Families Committee obviously can supply only a picayune fraction of the money. The unavoidable conclusion is that much or most of the ransom money is going to come from the U.S. taxpayers by the way of the President's contingency fund or some other lightly audited channel...
...joke," one scientist commented. "Inside the ring, there is tremendous leakage of energy in the form of high-frequency radiation. A person caught in there when the machine is running would receive a fatal does in a small fraction of a second." Eight feet of concrete and lead are used to shield the experimental hall personnel from the ring's radiation...
...same time, it is necessary to remember that the more than a billion dollars spent by the federal government for research and development in colleges and universities--including the amounts spent in support of a number of very large off-campus laboratories under university management--is only a small fraction (less than 10 per cent) of the full amount allotted by the government for research and development. It is also important to remember that the large majority of colleges--and the fields of the social sciences and humanities in all institutions--have felt almost no impact from federal research programs...
...spring of 1953 there were 19 requests to substitute papers or other alternatives for the standard final; last year this figure had risen to 51. Moreover, in 1953 only about a sixth of the exempted courses were not of the laboratory-language type; in 1961, the corresponding fraction was greater than a quarter...