Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealers' hype, were brisk when the car first came to market in the summer of last year. Some 3,000 DMC-12s' were sold in the first six months. But by December, bad weather and the recession's icy grip had cut sales to a fraction of their starting pace...
...retrospective of some 150 Avery oils and watercolors, organized by Barbara Haskell to open the Whitney Museum's fall season, can show only a fraction of this output. But it is a delectable fragment. It will also provide plenty of fuel for reassessment. Nobody could call Avery a neglected painter, but he did work against neglected painter, but he did work against the grain. In the '30s and '40s his Matissean aesthetic and his refusal to paint "social" subjects, whether of the left, like Ben Shahn, or of the right, like Thomas Hart Benton, made...
...target audience is not city residents. Instead, USA Today is aimed at: visitors, especially businessmen; people who have moved into a new region yet remain interested in news and sports from their former homes; and suburbanites whose local dailies are just too local. Gannett seeks only a small fraction of current newspaper readers, but hopes to amass enough such "tack-on buys" to reach a circulation by 1987 of 2.35 million, vs. the Wall Street Journal's current 2 million...
...horseback, others riding in wildly careening wagons, a few sprinting on foot, raced to find a good piece of land they could claim as their own. Almost everyone got something-except the Government. It had planned to charge settlers $1.25 an acre. Eleven years later, with only a fraction of the money paid, it waived the charge...
...Post the other day ex-Senator J. William Fulbright recalled, "In the old days, when your speeches were reported in the press, reading was clearly a habit with everybody. But in television, it's this sort of instant impression. They always to cut down everything to just a fraction. Your reasons are usually left out because they're not flamboyant...