Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better positioned for expansion than their Western competitors. Japanese carmakers are already dueling in Thailand, one of the fastest-growing Asian markets, and are eagerly awaiting a rise in living standards in other countries that should launch a major auto-buying spree. Thailand's market may be only a fraction of the size of the U.S.'s, but it offers a taste of things to come in some Southeast and West Asian countries -- and someday China and India. Yasuhara Kondo's showroom may not enjoy another boom, but Toyota and its large rivals are looking to wider horizons...
...models begin striding out for the show, Karan is in constant motion behind the curtain, tucking, smoothing, adjusting angles by an imperceptible (to anyone but her) fraction of an inch. Nothing escapes her eye. Everything has to be perfect. "Are you accessorized? . . . I told you I need a beret! . . . Lynn, move the belt!" From out on the runway comes the sound of Madonna singing her version of Peggy Lee's Fever as each model passes through Karan's last-minute scrutiny and touch-up. "Little black glasses! Who's next...
...fact, the losses already suffered by Harvard's endowment through gross mismanagement and incompetence are so monumental that they stagger the imagination. Try to imagine what a small fraction of assets so lost could have done for annual University budgets in terms of scholarships, salaries, new professorships, research projects...
...costs. The government maintains royal buildings and grounds, the yacht Britannia with its crew of 256, the train and the various planes and helicopters that the family use. It all adds up to more than $100 million a year. Commentators like to bring up Scandinavian monarchies, which cost a fraction of that, but Britons revel in pageantry, elaborate parades and huge royal weddings -- and no one in the world puts on a better show...
Very often, this is simply not the case. The actual number of Spaniards or "Spanish" entering the U.S. represents only a minute fraction of Hispanic immigration. Some have argued that the term is perfectly justifiable and legitimate because the origin of all Spanish-speakers can be traced back to Spain...