Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment, a very large fraction of the support for the program comes from special funds from the central administration who have been extremely generous," Pilbeam said. "Their support cannot continue indefinitely in the future...
Other Kennedy School officials disagree. They say that the $66 million raised thus far is right on schedule--and indeed, the fraction of the total goal that has been raised is on par with that of other schools in the University...
...billion budget cut by subtracting that amount from U.S. support of the United Nations, has now voted to uphold spending in our own military that would far surpass this gain in savings. By scapegoating international peacekeeping, the senate justifies SDI. Yet global policing has never cost us a fraction of our national defense initiatives...
Little Boy, which had been dropped from the Enola Gay at 8:15:30, exploded 43 sec. later, at 1,900 ft. above Hiroshima, creating a blinding bluish-white flash and, for a fraction of a second, unearthly heat. Temperatures near the hypocenter, the ground point immediately below the explosion, surged to figures ranging from 5400 degrees F to 7200 degrees F; within a mile of the hypocenter, the surfaces of objects instantly rose to more than 1000 degrees F. Those caught in the middle of this maelstrom were the lucky ones. They died instantly, vaporized into puffs of smoke...
Meanwhile, company sources happily volunteer the information that rap music represents only a small slice of Time Warner's total revenues: $85 million last year, about 2% of the $4 billion that the music division generates and an even tinier fraction of Time Warner's $15.9 billion in annual revenues. Translation: if the company were forced to scale back on rap, the bottom-line impact would be minimal...