Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early June after the grass has thickened, crews of students begin hauling in the chairs that will destroy the well-tended grass again. Harvard can supply itself with only a fraction of the 69,700 chairs that Commencement requires. Since even the largest contractor who rents chairs locally maintains an inventory of a mere 40,000, Harvard must rely on four different contractors for seats, says Robert Dwyer, a buyer in the purchasing department...
...earth, would blend the strengths of the two nations' space programs. "The Soviets have the ability to put massive amounts of material into space," says John McLucas, a NASA adviser and a former Secretary of the Air Force. "But they rely on other countries to supply a good fraction of their instrumentation. We do things in a more refined way and get better data...
When IBM introduced its new PS/2 line of personal computers last spring, dozens of companies began racing to be the first to design clones -- copycat machines that sell for a fraction of the price. Last week the distinction was claimed by an upstart, Dell Computer of Austin, which will begin selling PS/2 clones by the end of the year...
Every year around Commencement time, President Bok is fond of boasting about the many undergraduates involved in public service. He, and the Harvard community, have every reason to be proud. A large fraction of the student body participates in community programs, most of them with Phillips Brooks House...
...proposals, the Visual Artists Rights Bill, would also provide a 7% resale royalty on some art works fetching $1,000 or more. In this age of the $53.9 million Van Gogh, that would allow artists whose works increase in value -- always just a fraction of the profession -- to get a piece of the collector's profits. Critics counter that a similar provision in California's law has merely driven the sale of art off the books or out of state...