Word: fractionating
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...We’ve had just about three quarters of senior faculty appointments offered in the Faculty of Arts and Science accepted, a higher fraction than we’ve had in many years,” he said...
...sure of high-level support within Pakistan. For an interview at his home in Islamabad, he insists we drive a mazelike route because, he claims, Pakistani intelligence agents, who were once his friends and mentors, are now keeping him under surveillance. Saad says he commands 70 fighters?a fraction of the 2,000 to 3,000 guerrillas who, according to the Indian military, are still operating in the Kashmir Valley...
...must ask myself why, at a global university, a university which draws only a fraction of its student population from New England, the Boston Red Sox should be crowned as “Harvard’s Official Team...
...they are adept in the diva-esque arts of eye rolling, backbiting and referring to oneself in the third person. That will serve them well in show biz, where they will discover--like people around the world in real and harsher struggles--that being labeled "talented" is only a fraction of the battle...
...such expenses no longer account for much of the difference between book and tax income. Other factors—such as the peculiar accounting treatment of stock option compensation, differential treatment of overseas income, subsidiary income and pension obligations—account for large amounts and a large fraction remains unaccounted for. With the growing globalization of firms and the demographic twist we are working through continuing unabated, these wedges (and consequent discretionary opportunities) are clouding the true picture of how firms are actually performing. As such, enforcing uniformity would reduce uncertainty over what true profits are thereby furthering...