Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appointments have been to women), the fact remains that since 1991, the percentage of senior women on the Faculty has only increased from 9.6 percent to 11.5 percent, an annual rate of change of less than .4 percent. At this rate, it would take almost 55 years for the fraction of tenured women at FAS to reach one-third...
...Metrick says the Ad Board sees only a fraction of the academic dishonesty that actually occurs...
Woods' melting pot lineage is just a precursor to a entire generation of interracial Americans. So far, both whites and blacks have often expected those of mixed heritage to follow the one-drop rule and to classify themselves as black if they have any fraction of African-American blood. Woods' rejection of the one-drop rule is indicative of new attitudes among interracial Americans. Hopefully, interracial people such as Tiger Woods will also help to demonstrate just how ridiculous racial stereotypes...
...past month, the University has hosted at least two library weekends for donors to help raise the library's $85-million goal, a fraction of the University's $2.1-billion Capital Campaign...
...page is primarily financial: The agency thinks that making the information available on the Web will save millions of dollars in paperwork. Last year, the SSA mailed some four million financial reports to taxpayers at a cost of $5.23 each. Delivering the same report over the Internet costs a fraction of a penny. As usual, the bureaucrats are not very concerned that the site makes collecting private Social Security information relatively easy. "We have confidence that in the huge majority of cases, the people requesting these things are the right people," John Sabo, SSA's director of the Electronic Services...