Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of the applicants tend to be the bright, ambitious offspring of the well-to-do. Thus Jean-Pierre Cot, a leading Socialist, sees the school's success not as a triumph of excellence but "of a certain political class which has come out of a little, lofty fraction of the bourgeoisie...
...frequency. By mid-November, President Bok had formed the Committee to Study Violent Crimes, in response to statistics like these from the Harvard police: 16 instances of reported assault and battery and 7 incidents of armed robbery. The same period in the academic year 1972-73 had produced a fraction of this number...
...using powerful magnetic fields to squeeze or confine isotopes of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium. But even the best of these "magnetic bottles" -which require tremendous amounts of energy to operate-have so far been unable to provide the necessary temperature and density for more than a tiny fraction of a second...
...sure, these 33 hours or so of recorded talks are a minuscule fraction of Richard Nixon's presidential conversations?and, one can only hope, the grubbiest fraction. The transcripts might not necessarily be representative of the way he always conducts business; the language and tone may be loftier and more dignified when he confers with, say, Henry Kissinger or other officials. Despite the indecipherable passages and inelegant language, however, the transcripts yield an absorbing insight into the inner workings of Nixon's White House and of the President's mind. Some noteworthy examples follow...
...these payments are a very small fraction of what the universities' tax bills would be if all their property were fully taxed--as many local politicians have demanded in recent years. It is doubtful that Harvard and MIT fully pay for all the services they receive from the city--especially in such areas as fire protection...