Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...membership representatives from all of the major minority populations on campus In addition, any student wishing to attend the meetings could contribute and vote Through the suggestions of these members, the constitution committee came up with the infamous two-sevenths provisions, giving seven campus minority groups a fraction of a vote on the new government's agenda setting committee...
Harvard's 1980-81 financial report shows where the University stands regarding that balance, stating that "the value of the endowment can be maintained only through a conservative distribution policy that retains a fraction of current income to build the capital base. Failure to follow such a policy would assist current operations, but only at the expense of the University's ability to maintain those same endowment-dependent activities in the future...
...anti-Semitism apply solely to American and European Jews? Why has The New York Times printed only five stories on Ethiopian Jews between 1975 and 1982, as opposed to more than 532 on Soviet Jews? Why does the extermination of thousands of Ethiopian Jews draw such an insignificant fraction of the money and public attention devoted to just one Soviet Jew? Until those questions disappear, a community will continue to be repressed and massacred--and ignored by an outside world that professes to care about human rights...
...goes undetected, and even when culprits are caught, the victimized company often tries to hush up the scandal and absorb its losses rather than admit to having poor computer security. Says Charles Lecht, president of Advanced Computer Techniques Corp., which distributes computer equipment: "The crime you see is a fraction of what's going on." According to banking sources, a Washington, B.C., bank has yet to report publicly a huge fraud that occurred two months ago. One of its tellers transferred electronically $1.5 million to an account at a Swiss bank...
...MARK OF sincere federalism is the acceptance of differences, Ronald Reagan has yet to earn the label of federalist. He has driven a wedge between classes and races and regions and nations. When he speaks of "the nation," he clearly refers to but a fraction of America--those who stand to gain lucratively from tax breaks, both personal and business. It is ironic that Reagan chose to quote Lincoln's words to Congress on Tuesday. As Lincoln no doubt realized and as Reagan cannot understand, the "history" so "inescapable" has largely been the path toward removing oppressive, less-fortunate features...