Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANTHROPOLOGISTS INSIST that man is slowly growing larger, a fraction of an inch each generation, so that 1980 man bumps his head on the doorway that 1850 man sailed under easily. The subspecies of American writers, though, seem even more thyroidal--in the past few decades they have soared in size. Mailer, Wolfe, even John Irving; these men are literary Paul Bunyans, their typewriters 40 axhandles from base to carriage. Unafraid of any subject, they tackle modern life head on, to either conquer (Mailer and Wolfe) or be conquered. There is nothing quiet and little reflective about these men; they...
...squashed shipment of watches represents no more than a fraction of the counterfeit goods that move in international trade every day. Counterfeits are a problem for such other well-known brand-name products as Levi Strauss blue jeans, Puma running shoes, and Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky. Cartier's hope is that the steamroller tactics will help encourage governments around the world to take whatever steps are necessary to crush the counterfeiters...
...opinion we greatly overuse the jury system. It is sheer waste to impanel a jury for every auto-accident case. In highly technical civil suits, experienced and impartial judges can get to the merits in a fraction of the time. It is usually the side that feels that those merits need to be skirted that demands a jury...
...reports of rampant speculation in Santa Fe stock during the weeks just prior to the takeover announcement. The questionable trading involved large numbers of purchases in so-called call options on the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco. Options contracts are trading gambles in which buyers acquire, at a fraction of the stock's market value, the right to buy or sell a quantity of stock at a fixed price within a specified period, usually anywhere from a few hours to nine months. The heavy volume of transactions in Santa Fe options suggested that investors with prior knowledge...
Both the AAA and the BSA have yet to demonstrate that they speak for a significant fraction of the constituencies they claim to represent. The confusion could best be resolved by taking a poll to discover how many Black and Asian students expressly wish to be represented...