Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indian withdrawal involves no great financial loss for IBM. The company's Indian business amounts to only a tiny fraction of worldwide annual revenues of $16 billion. In a quarter-century, IBM's Indian operation has earned just $6 million in profits. The Bombay plant now makes only spare parts, having stopped the reconditioning of used computers six years ago. The company will sell at giveaway prices 125 obsolete model 1401 computers it has currently on lease in India, along with its facilities there. Analysts wonder if IBM's policy of 100% control will be able...
Members of the border patrol frankly admit that they only apprehend a small fraction of the people entering illegally. And those caught, if determined to become illicit American residents, can try again and again until they make it through the obstacle course set up by the U.S. government...
Manning hopes to find out more about the temples and Mut herself from the contents of 500 plastic shopping bags full of potsherds and other fragments that the team has already collected. The archaeologists are likely to need a lot more shopping bags before they are finished. Only a fraction of Mut's temple grounds have been explored thus far. Manning estimates that it will take another 25 years to dig up the rest...
...PENTAGON has ended its six-month old program to "automatically" upgrade some 60,000 undesirable discharges received by Vietnam-era deserters, but figures show that only a fraction of those who had received non-honorable discharges had chosen to participate...
...Small Fraction...