Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, Wilson said, only a tiny fraction of reported crimes, 2 or 3 per cent, lead to jail or prison terms for the offender, the major reason being that few are apprehended. But another reason is that of those convicted so few are sent to jail. GOAL reports that only 21 persons go to prison for every 100 murders, only 7.1 persons for every 100 rapes, and only 5 persons for every 100 robberies. "If much or most serious crime is committed by repeaters," Wilson writes in his latest book Thinking About Crime, "separating repeaters from the rest of society...
...Betty greeted her husband with a bear hug, and his sons affectionately draped their arms around his shoulders. The President's reaction to his day was casual and characteristic: "Gee, it's nice to be home." Then he said: "We had a great trip−just a fraction of a second or two kind of distorted things. Everything else was superb." Indeed, Ford went out of his way to reassure Californians that he did not hold the Fromme episode against them. "I wouldn't under any circumstances let one individual's effort undercut the warmth...
...office in 1968 he saw about 1.5 million people in rallies and along parade streets. When that figure is modified to allow for children and nonvoters, it is a good bet that any candidate or President can come into the real line of sight of only a tiny fraction of the voters...
Hamburger based his work on earlier discoveries of how the immune system causes allergic reactions. Researchers had determined that Immunoglobulin E (IgE), a blood fraction involved in fighting off invasions by foreign substances, is often present in abnormally large amounts in allergy victims. The Y-shaped molecules join with allergens such as pollens and then lock onto special sites on the surfaces of the connective tissue structures known as mast cells, causing them to release histamines, which in turn trigger allergy symptoms...
...Communists and the fellow-traveling M.D.P. (Portuguese Democratic Movement) with party representation in the Cabinet; the two groups had polled a mere 18% of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election, compared with 38% for the Socialists and 26% for the P.P.D. So tiny a fraction made a mockery of any M.F.A. attempt to maintain the fiction of democratic participation in the government. The M.F.A. thus swept out all representatives of political parties...