Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spectacular performance and that's recognized in the compensation," said James H. Rowe III '73, vice president of government, community and public affairs. "I'm told by [Meyer] that the portfolio managers would be compensated far better on Wall Street, so they're getting literally a fraction of what they would if they joined their colleagues elsewhere...
Number of homes as a fraction of a Seinfeld...
...district must petition if it is dissatisfied with its representative. After that, turnout in the new election must exceed one-half of the district, and two-thirds of voters must wish to terminate that member's term. This is ridiculous. Make recall possible by decreasing the initial petition fraction and by decreasing the election turnout number to the percentage of the House which voted in the initial election...
...tell whether most voucher-supported students perform better academically in a private school, no one needs a study to show that most private schools are safer and more orderly. For inner-city parents, vouchers can represent salvation from a system in perpetual disrepair, even if they offer just a fraction of poor children a way into the lifeboat of private schooling...
...federal deficit has shrunk to $22.6 billion, the lowest since 1974. While Wall Street screamed, President Clinton was before a benign crowd at the Democratic Leadership Council, proudly bearing the news that uncomfortable first-term taxes and a chest-beating economy had driven the number down to a fraction of what even administration officials had predicted...