Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still only a small fraction of the proposals will actually cost anything, and according to Tarallo, fundraising for some, such as a clean-up fund for the city are already underway. Malden's annual budget is approximately $40 million, but the city is already beginning to reorganize its finances and is beefing up its lobbying efforts on Beacon Hill to secure more state and, he adds...
...will only affect a small fraction of its portfolio. Heffernan said that $1.5 million--or 3 percent of the total--is invested in companies that have not signed the Sullivan Principles or have not achieved Category 1 or 11 rating...
...impact of a Moscow pullout will be mostly indirect. No one was counting on the Soviet Union or its satellites to provide more than a tiny fraction of the 600,000 tourists expected to visit Los Angeles during the 16 days of Olympic competition. The big question was whether popular U.S. interest in the Games, abetted by one of the most intensive publicity campaigns ever mounted for a sports event, could be sustained with so many star performers missing. On the answer rode millions of dollars in sales of everything from air fares to souvenir trinkets, as well...
...full accounting of death squad activity is impossible, but patterns can be discerned. While President Reagan has suggested that the left is sponsoring squads to smear the right, both the U.S. embassy and Tutela Legal put civilian deaths attributable to the guerrillas at a fraction of those assigned to right-wing packs. Nonetheless, the rebels frequently execute alleged army collaborators, including villagers who gave either information or food to passing patrols. A hit team from a major guerrilla group, the Popular Liberation Front (FPL), killed U.S. Navy Lieut. Albert Schaufelberger last May, while a splinter faction called the Revolutionary Workers...
...momentous as such developments are, they have so far touched only a fraction of the country. With a quarter of the world's people scattered across 3.69 million sq. mi., China is so vast and complex that even the most far-reaching reforms will take years to filter down to every farm, village and faraway province. Nor can any regime transform almost overnight a proud nation saddled with a 3,000-year history of turbulence...