Word: fractionated
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...national service, the plan that would permit students to finance their post-secondary education by working for up to two years in a variety of community jobs. Even with a price tag that steep, however, the program can fund at most 150,000 Americans a year by 1997, a fraction of the potential demand and a far cry from Clinton's campaign pledge that "every young American could borrow the money necessary to go to college" by "giving two years of his life to rebuild America...
Scientists funded by the genome project have their work cut out for them. As of last week, only about 6,100 human genes had been identified, and only a tiny fraction of the genome sequenced. But the rate of discovery is picking...
...time by Le Charivari. Nobody can guess how many watercolors and drawings he turned out during these interludes -- one of his writer friends, Theodore de Banville, remembered a studio full of "cartons overflowing with drawings, so swollen that they could not be shut" -- but only a tiny fraction of them has survived. Quite a lot of that fraction went on view last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in "Daumier Drawings," jointly organized by the Met and the Stadelsche Kunstinstitut of Frankfurt...
...issues the electorate must face are often far beyond its powers of comprehension. The complexity of our government and our policies has far outstripped the general level of education in society. Only a small fraction of the electorate has the schooling and preparation to wade through the almost impenetrable fog of issues and thick rhetoric of American politics...
President Clinton may champion welfare reform for the poor, but he plans to cut only a fraction of the far more expensive federal handouts enjoyed by well-off Americans. As Clinton drafts a plan to slice $145 billion from the annual deficit by the end of his term, he is considering -- and mostly rejecting -- suggestions from his economic advisers and independent budget analysts that the U.S. could save more than $60 billion a year by digging deeper into the federal-spending programs and tax breaks that largely benefit the wealthiest 10% of Americans, which means households earning more than...