Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close but not agonizingly close. We still had to sprint as hard as we could, to focus in and jump hard," Burns said. "I knew I couldn't even spend a fraction of a second looking around and wondering where we were...
EAST MORICHES, N.Y.: The voice recorder tapes from the doomed TWA Flight 800 cut off 12 minutes into the trip with an unusual noise lasting a mere fraction of a second, but authorities hope that sound will explain what caused the plane to explode into a fiery ball last week. James Kallstrom, assistant FBI director, told reporters Thursday that "we know there was a catastrophic explosion; it was caused by some kind of a bomb, obviously. We're not further describing how that would be, whether it was carried on whether something hit the plane from outside and caused...
...time the humanities complex holds about 85 workers, of which 25 percent are minorities and, Randall proudly adds, 8 percent are women--a large fraction in the often male-dominated world of construction. And on this project, "It's all women in charge," Randall says...
Harvard has also agreed to urge other Cambridge landlords to follow its example and sell a fraction of their formerly rent-controlled properties to the city...
...approximately 1,600 seniors who will receive degrees today from the nation's leading academic institution, a very small fraction--just 7 percent--will receive an academic distinction that stands out above all others...