Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the shopping spree, however, the value of U.S. property under foreign control is still only a tiny fraction of America's immense total. (The & estimated value of all U.S. residential dwellings alone comes to some $6 trillion.) But foreign holdings have grown surprisingly large in many lucrative, and occasionally sensitive, spots. Foreign investors now own 46% of the commercial real estate in downtown Los Angeles, for example, according to a survey by the Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group. In downtown Houston, the foreign-owned tally is 39%; in Minneapolis 32%; and in Manhattan...
...billion, four-year aid program was successful even though it provided only a fraction of the necessary capital because all it had to do was "clear bottlenecks and let society recover," Maier told the crowd of about 50 people. He added that American money acted "like oil in a machine. It helped to alleviate the constraints [on economic growth...
...documents represent only a fraction of the 1.5 million-page trove sequestered by Congress during the Watergate probe. Further releases are expected, but Nixon and his former associates are still challenging disclosure of some of the remaining material...
...bailed out and was escorted back across the border by rebel forces -- an indication that mujahedin move freely in the border area. The national reconciliation drive launched by Najibullah in January has not fared well either. It has drawn the support of only about 40,000 refugees, a tiny fraction of the estimated 4 million displaced Afghans in Pakistan and Iran who support and often fight in the mujahedin's holy war against Kabul...
...scientific papers. Says Metallurgist Frank Fradin, director of Argonne's materials science division, who is also an associate editor of Physical Review Letters: "As of three weeks ago, we had 98 papers submitted on the subject, and only a small fraction of them will ever get published. Progress is so rapid that a result of two to three weeks ago is already out of date. We've had to institute a whole new system to speed up the publication process." One important discovery: at least a dozen different compounds, all subtly different from the one Chu found, appear...