Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thirds of all welfare recipients have pre-school aged children," Fuller said. "If just a fraction of welfare parents go to work, the immense demand for preschooling in the inner-city will bring down an already fragile system...
Newt Gingrich, poet laureate of the Yahoos, wants to stop federal funding for Public Broadcasting Services [Television, Jan. 23]. He calls public television a ``sandbox for the rich''--as if Big Bird were watched only by the kids of millionaires. PBS takes only a tiny fraction of the national budget, but this crude man would rather spend money on pet projects like Star Wars...
These are exciting times for Republicans, exciting times indeed. Why, either of these two organizations could lay the foundation for the Republicans' future on campus! Yes, the capacity to lead a tiny fraction of a population equivalent in size to a tinier midwestern town surely lies ahead for one of these brave groups...
...encoding them as a text file; other users can download and decode these binary files for display in the privacy of their own home. As we walked down this dirty boulevard, we gawked and gasped at the width and breadth of sexual appetites. Here, we present a significant fraction of the UseNet groups devoted to sexuality in its manifold...el in its many forms. Parental discretion advised...
...mostly African-American jury of eight women and four men, this was the day's denouement. They were out of the courtroom by the time Judge Ito--informed that a hapless Court TV cameraman had slipped and televised the face of one alternate juror for a fraction of a second--excoriated the press and threatened to shut down the television cameras altogether. But as has happened before, Ito brandished a stick that he ultimately declined to use: he relented the next morning and let the show...