Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trump had to give in, leave the tenants in peace and even pay some of their legal costs, but he characteristically describes this as "one of the greatest blessings in disguise." His reasoning: had he been able to expel the tenants, he would have sold their apartments for a fraction of what soaring prices make them worth...
...landscape" with his family a lot. The popular spots are Napa Valley, Monterey, Carmel, Arizona's Grand Canyon and Reno. But for the Japanese, nothing vies with golf. In California, with greens fees for 18 holes less than half what they are in Japan, and good golf equipment a fraction of the price there, everybody is playing the game...
YEREVAN, U.S.S.R.--Survivors of the Armenian earthquake are freezing to death at night because only a fraction of the thousands of tents sent to the disaster area reach the homeless, a Soviet newspaper reported yesterday...
...Crewmen aboard the C-130 cargo plane peered anxiously through an open escape hatch as their aircraft corkscrewed down to the airstrip, on the lookout for rebel rockets. But even such daring trips cannot begin to save the town from starvation. "This amount of food will feed only a fraction of those in need," said Gordon Wagner, the U.S. representative of OXFAM in Juba. He had not eaten in four days. Children scream in agony at the 50 feeding centers in the town. "I fed 900 children," said Daniel Bulla, a Dinka, the emaciated supervisor. "Tomorrow thousands will come...
Assistant EPA Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Bush has promised to do a better job on the environment, which after eight years of not so benign neglect needs attention fast. The new boss of the $8.5 billion Superfund will be caught between environmentalists, outraged that only a fraction of the 1,177 highly contaminated sites on the agency's list were cleaned up under Reagan, and corporations balking at paying for it. On top of that, this administrator will have to find inventive ways to keep medical syringes and other noxious debris from washing up on the nation...