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Arkin also pointed out that the number of cluster bombs used in Yugoslavia was a mere fraction of the number sprayed over Iraq, and that this is already a recognition of "the adverse humanitarian impact" of these bombs...
...owner can be guaranteed a jet with as little as four hours' notice, anytime? Priced to make a buck, of course. Customers do not buy a particular plane so much as the right to fly on a jet of the class they have purchased. NetJets owners can purchase a fraction of a plane up to the whole thing and get a proportional share of its air time. A one-eighth share of, say, a Cessna Citation V Ultra goes for $835,000, and each hour of occupied flight will cost you $1,242. Management and other fees are around...
...district that shares its small city with enormous Cornell University. That doesn't mean every family in town has a computer in the home. Ithaca has discussed opening its computer labs to parents and the community after hours. "We need to make sure we're not just reaching a fraction of the population," LaPier says. And parents do express concerns about their child's privacy, as well as access to inappropriate material online. But they're coming around, LaPier says...
...that sets a monthly maintenance fee covering all services. While they may begin life there in a mostly independent mode, taking an apartment with meals, they can later move to assisted-care rooms or even the on-campus nursing home for about the same monthly maintenance fee, usually a fraction of what a regular nursing home demands...
...incentive appears on the books as a reduction in the size of government. But this is misleading. To qualify for a dollar tax credit, you must use many dollars in some way the government dictates. So every new tax credit actually increases the fraction of the economy directed by the government...