Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give voters the benefit of the doubt, though, let's say 5 percent of America is homosexual. To my knowledge, no senators are openly gay, and Barney Frank is the most outspoken homosexual in Congress. So we have a 0 percent gay population in the Senate and a fraction of a percent in the House. America may never be ready for a gay president, much less a first partner...
...fact is, you could watch the presidential campaign and not see anything touch on most peoples' frustrations and concerns. Whatever politics or government means to them today, it's a fraction of what it was 20 to 30 years ago. It's less relevant, and they don't think it matters very much." --Pollster Bob Teeter...
...diversified as the College," says Michael B. McElroy, Rotch professor of atmospheric science. "We are pleased that we have a larger fraction of women concentrators than...the other sciences. All minorities are represented...
...good fraction of the senior theses are good and interesting and a few of them are truly excellent, the sorts of things I would be delighted to be seeing out of the professional schools here and the magazine I edit," says William C. Clark, Harman professor of international science, public policy and human development...
...cockpit-voice recorder quickly yielded only a tantalizing enigma: what Francis called a "fraction-of-a-second sound" 111/2 minutes into the flight, followed by silence. This tiny glitch of noise reinforced the notion--privately held by many government officials almost from the beginning--that Flight 800 was brought down by a bomb or even a missile. During a Friday- afternoon news conference, Francis revealed that the NTSB was consulting with investigators of what proved to be bombings of an Air India jet in 1985 and of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...