Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gennaro said that Harvard may move some 400,000 volumes currently housed in a book depository in Allston to another location. Built some 40 years ago, the Allston depository can hold only a fraction of the books Harvard officials had hoped it could...
Salmonella poisoning has been around for a long time, but the number of reported cases has surged, from 33,700 in 1980 to 47,800 last year. Those figures represent only a small fraction of the problem, since most cases, - while unpleasant, pass quickly and go unreported. Experts believe that each year as many as 4 million Americans have a bout with salmonella. Occasionally the infection is serious enough to require hospitalization, and it can lead to arthritis, neurological problems and even death. The elderly, AIDS sufferers and others with weakened immune systems are especially vulnerable to the disease, which...
...that will speed travelers from Britain into Europe's expanding transport network. By contrast, residents of Britain's prosperous rural Kent have opposed construction and the industrialization that will follow. British road and rail systems -- which include no high-speed equipment -- remain inadequate. Thatcher's government spends only a fraction of France's commitment to improving infrastructure. Many businessmen fear that Britain's failure to take full advantage of the Chunnel link will not make it easier for them to compete in the new Europe...
Never was the collective and irrational vilification of the press any clearer than at the Silber election night reception. Even before the candidate's lead in the early returns had faded, a fraction of his diehard followers, gathered at the main ballroom of the Prudential Sheraton, were itching for a fight with the assembled media...
...disturbing that only a tiny fraction of the total number of acquaintance rapes that occur on the Harvard campus are reported to the Ad Board. But while Deans Jewett and Wolcowitz may not be sufficiently sympathetic to students confronted by unwanted sexual advances, the policies and standards of the Ad Board pose a far larger hurdle for victims to overcome. Under the College's present disciplinary system, a finding that a date rape took place will always be a rare occurence...