Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taking place at less than 30 m.p.h., such as occur when a car hits a tree or light pole-but most head-on collisions between two cars are much more violent. Air bags are not effective in side swipes, back-end collisions, or multiple jolts (they deflate in a fraction of a second after the initial impact...
...equal in wealth and power equal in opportunity if not status." It goes without saying that no such America--where opportunity was equal for all--has ever existed; what is more disturbing is Fried's association of all these men with the same social prescription, to which only a fraction of them actually subscribed...
...active member of Sons of Liberty who wished to remain anonymous said Ergo is "too dogmatic. They adhere religiously to Rand's senile ideas." He and White agreed that Ergo represents a fraction of the libertarian spectrum, even though the spectrum claims only 40 to 50 members at Harvard and MIT combined. Perhaps for this reason there has been little interaction and co-operation between libertarians at the two campuses. Several Harvard libertarians contacted said they had never heard of Ergo...
...today. I do certify that, to travel from the Hermitage to Washington, I myself had to board a flatboat and then a steamboat, disembarking at Pittsburgh to complete another arduous journey by overland stagecoach. Even the lure of a day in the capital could not persuade more than a Fraction of my ardent partisans to undergo weeks of such travail...
...people are uncertain, meandering drivers because they are expected to be, just as many women come to adopt the male notion of the dithering woman driver. "Older, fit drivers are the least dangerous on the road," writes Comfort. "By 70-plus you have experience, and the accident-prone fraction of the population is dead or disqualified...