Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several women have died of cancer. But more damaging is the scare techniques used by uncertain and uninformed physicians. When the DES issue first broke at the beginning of the decade, several women, on the advice of their doctors, had preventive hysterectomies. As is known now, only a tiny fraction of DES daughters will develop cancer. The surgery was unnecessary...
...well; the budgetary strain imposed upon the federal government by the costs of economic incentives to keep people in the armed forces ultimately leads to cutbacks or curtailments of social programs for the needy. Institution of the draft would allow the current force levels to be maintained at a fraction of their present cost in wages and benefits. The funds that would be released by these savings could go towards programs that would, say, create more jobs for the unemployed youth in our cities...
Arnold Harberger is now and has been for some time the paid flunky of a vicious fascist government which engages in torture, murder even outside its own borders, and wholesale economic immiseration of a large fraction of the people under its control. Harberger's disingenuous attempt to distinguish between the government of Chile and government-owned corporations may impress the legal mind, but it strikes most of us as a distinction without a difference. The fact, which cannot be evaded by childish sophistries, is that Harberger directly and through his students and disciples is a principal architect of Chile...
...speeds increase, the "aperture" (the correct angle of approach into the turns) decreases and drivers of the two-and four-man sleds must steer onto the proper line within a fraction of a second or risk a crash. In one turn, dubbed "Shady," the sleds are whipped through a 150° turn that drops 36 ft. The resulting slingshot effect pushes the sleds up to 75 m.p.h. and subjects their crews to 4.5-G stresses (astronauts experience 5 Gs at blast-off). According to one driver, crewmen have blacked out on the Lake Placid course...
Sellers have discovered that the price their silver fetches as scrap from retail dealers is only a fraction of the spot, or quoted, price for the metal. This spread between scrap and spot prices has been widening because chaotic markets make dealers reluctant to tie up too much cash in expensive inventory. A year ago, when silver was quoted at around $5 an oz., dealers paid customers $3 or $4 an oz., but when silver recently nudged $50, nervous dealers in the Los Angeles area were offering only $10 to $20 an oz. for scrap and sterling flatware...