Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want, Harvard students seem, by a certain measure, to be concerned with little more than upcoming finals and papers. Only a small segment of Harvard students are involved with the campus political organizations. Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats and the two College Republican Clubs both draw an all-too-small fraction of undergraduates to their meetings and activities...
...sacrifice a fraction of the many benefits we each receive from the federal government, then we can balance the budget. But we must all be willing to make that sacrifice for the good to the country...
...betrayal is becoming widespread. Among the most popular and widely used government-sponsored retirement programs, 401(k) plans are surprisingly vulnerable to corporate fraud. So far, the Labor Department has launched investigations of 310 companies and recovered $3.5 million of plundered assets. While the probes involve a tiny fraction of the nation's 250,000 401(k) plans, they have revealed a disturbing pattern. "We have been surprised at both the number of complaints and the percentage that have been substantiated," Labor Secretary Robert Reich said last week. Investigators have found merit in 401(k) complaints at twice the normal...
...films and filmmakers mentioned above are only a fraction of those featured in the retrospective Others include: Len Iye, James Sibley Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber, James Whitney and Dwinnel Grant. Attending a lecture along with a screening is a good idea, since understanding the technique, milieu and decade in which these artists worked helps make sense of their non objective subjects...
Today, a very large fraction of our undergraduates participate in voluntary service of some kind. Some of their efforts are as simple as the donation of time for cleaning up houseyards or painting fences; some are as complex as running a summer program for children in an urban neighborhood, complete with transportation, provision of meals and guarding the safety of children...