Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manne said that the $300 billion "is not worth paying" and that "it would make better sense to allocate a fraction of this amount to further improvements in nuclear safety," and advocated a minimum-cost combination of energy conservation, fossil fuel power production, and some nuclear energy...
...York Assistant Attorney General Gus Harrow at week's end, "is our headache, not the court's." Both Stamos and Levine are men of modest means, and though Bernard Reis owns a Manhattan town house and an art collection, it is not likely that more than a fraction of the $9 million could be extracted from...
...charred surface in order to get more heat into the room." He was creating, in effect, something similar to what physicists call a "black body," a furnace-like cavity with walls that absorb and then emit practically all the heat and other radiation that reaches them; only a fraction of the radiation escapes through a small hole in one of the walls...
...wire litter the sand around the deserted town of Ras Sudr, once a dusty bedroom community for Egyptian and foreign workers at the nearby oilfields. The wells of Ras Sudr produce only 3,000 bbl. of crude a day−a trickle by Middle Eastern standards and only a fraction of the 75,000 bbl. daily pumped out of Abu Rudeis. But the desolate, cactus-covered patch of desert with its huddle of workers' decaying cottages has a considerable symbolic importance. Under the second Sinai accord worked out last summer by Secretary Kissinger, Ras Sudr was scheduled...
Riccardo is expected back in London this week to hear the government's decision. The betting is that Master Compromiser Wilson will find some solution-perhaps lending Chrysler a fraction of the money it wants so that it can salvage healthy parts of its business or try to bring out a new model. Even that would set an uncomfortable precedent...