Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't resolve anything neatly, but anticlimactically suspends the narrative development of an extremely complicated person. His wife's grief rings false to us since Siegel has chosen to show her previously as a nag. But we realize at the end that the grief is real, that only a fraction of the marriage was shown us during the film--that people unleash themselves on one another with the unspoken assumption that a future exists in which all problems and feelings can be reconciled...
...most important news to emerge from the Supreme Soviet meeting was a 6% increase in Moscow's arms spending. As part of the new budget, the group approved the largest defense appropriation in Soviet peacetime history: 17.7 billion rubles ($19.7 billion). Actually, that figure represents only a fraction of the actual outlay. It covers only the actual housekeeping costs of the Soviet Union's military forces, ammunition purchases and the acquisition of light conventional weapons. The Soviets routinely disguise under other headings their spending for important weaponry. Outlays for nuclear-weapon research and production that run into...
...physiological changes were modest. Novice smokers registered an increase in heart rate of 16 beats a min ute on the average (only a small fraction of what occurs at orgasm), while habitual users, who tended to start off with a slower heartbeat, showed a greater but not alarming increase. There was no significant increase in breathing rates. The tests confirmed the widely reported "redeye" effect of pot: the small blood vessels in the whites of the eyes became dilated, and the higher the dose the greater the dilation...
Captivating Experiences. Goldmark believes that initially EVR will be purely instructional-used in schools, hospitals and industries-if only for reasons of cost. Motorola will price the first EVR player units at nearly $800 apiece. Yet mass production could conceivably push the price down to a fraction of that and eventually lead to TV sets with built-in EVR units. "EVR will make education as compelling as TV entertainment," Goldmark insists. He points out that with EVR, a backwoods teacher could become an educational paragon, ordering lectures by Robert Lowell on poetry, by Zino Francescatti on the violin...
...thirds that quantity. Don't attempt to substitute guesswork for arithmetic here, as a larger room will make students feel too important, and a smaller one may drive them away. At the first meeting, inform your overflow crowd that it will be possible to admit only a small fraction thereof; then ask each applicant to submit a brief autobiography plus a 25-word statement on the subject "Why I'm anxious to take this course...