Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sponsors also said they discussed with Strauss the possibility of making all source books "term-bill-able," instead of the fraction presently available by that mode of payment...
...federal budget, a whopping $738 billion. The largest chunk is Social Security ($319 billion), but entitlements also include Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits, government pensions, unemployment insurance and farm subsidies. Only one-sixth of this money goes to Americans below the poverty line. A significant fraction of government benefit checks are cashed by the comfortably middle class. The Progressive Policy Institute estimates that families with taxable incomes above $50,000 receive 19% of federal entitlement money...
...space station, and vice versa. Supporters of manned space shots note that the Hubble could never have been repaired without human hands; opponents argue that without NASA's insistence that the telescope be launched by shuttle, the instrument could have gone up in the late 1970s, at a fraction of its eventual cost and into a higher, more useful orbit to boot...
...Only a fraction of a percentage of students go with New England Telephone, and most students who change make a high volume of calls," Wise says...
...stamp your file with a black stamp, which means, 'Forget about America.' " Khamov, 25, an electrician who wants to settle in Orvado, Colorado, ignores him. Not that the self-appointed expert is wrong: ever since communist control ended, the U.S. embassy has been cherry-picking, allowing only a small fraction of these sweat-stained, hope-driven applicants through. But Khamov and his extended family (13 in all), who have joined the visa line straight from their 55-hour train ride from Siberia, may actually have a shot. They will be applying on a time-honored ground: freedom from religious intolerance...