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...Undergraduate Council provides 67.1 percent of student group funding (excluding public service grants), but Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 says her group can provide only a small fraction of the resources groups deserve...
...score at H-Y-P was due in part to the fact that the entire Yale and Princeton teams were shaved and tapered, ready to swim their best times in this meet. Harvard, however, chose to save its best times for Easterns and NCAAs. Only a fraction of the team would continue on to postseason events and, as a result, only those swimmers for whom H-Y-P was the last important meet were shaved and tapered...
...goes to church, it's probably to an Episcopal one, and he makes exactly four and a half appearances there a year. During the war, it's most likely that he was in the Navy, where he served 24 months and 21 days, of which only a fraction more than nine months were spent overseas. He was probably an enlisted man or, if an officer, an ensign, served some time in the V-12, but doesn't belong to a veterans' organization...
...relate to one another. In recent years, information technology has been responsible for more than one-quarter of real economic growth. Jobs in information technology pay significantly more than nontechnology jobs. By the year 2000, 60% of all jobs will require the technology skills that only a fraction of Americans now have...
These tests are very high-schoolish, but not for the reasons most people think. True, the material they examine is occasionally elementary and often irrelevant, and the skill of answering these questions under such tight time pressure is really only useful to a small fraction of those taking all the various tests. True, the tests are mostly multiple choice, can be mastered through expensive test-prep courses and probably don't reflect anything about one's potential performance in graduate school...