Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every one of its client states, the U.S. is separated by oceans from all its NATO allies except Canada. The Atlantic Alliance's ability to repel a Soviet invasion depends on reinforcements and supplies arriving from the U.S. after the fighting starts. Since airlifts can transport only a tiny fraction of this, the bulk of the critically important resupply could be sunk by Soviet submarines, land-based aircraft and surface vessels. To prevent this, contend Navy officers, U.S. warships, armed with antisubmarine and antimissile weapons, must escort supply convoys across the Atlantic. Not only is this naval capacity needed...
...fraction of a second, and for the rest of his life," Saul Landau, a fellow at IPS, writes of Michael Moffitt, "fascism will have its most concrete meaning...
...heat-storing ceiling tile made of concrete with a core of heat-retentive salts, which is capable of providing 75% to 80% of a house's heat. In Britain, Patscenter International, a well-respected research group, has discovered a still secret way of making photovoltaic panels at a fraction of the current price; panels to power a small family house, it says, would cost about...
...finish line came about five strokes before MIT would have passed the Crimson, and the Harvard lightweights had won their first race of the season--by a fraction of a seat...
...while the polls indicated that the Left might win anyhow. But a sufficiently large fraction of voters who had deserted the Majority in 1974, '76 and '77 for the Socialists, returned to the Right to ensure its victory. They could not bring themselves to support a coalition of bitter enemies engaged in fierce mutual recriminations and incapable of agreeing on a platform. Even though the French youth from 18 to 21 voted for the first time, the Left did a shade worse than in the Mitterrand-Giscard duel of 1974. And so, the C.P. is back in the political ghetto...