Word: fractionating
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...HUSC users aren't actually concerned about how fast data travel over the phone; their frustration stems more from the fact that there just aren't enough lines to accomodate ven a fraction of those eager to dial into HUSC to check e-mail or read USENET news or do their problem sets, most of which can be done at the slower speed 2400 baud but only when you can dial...
...national service, the plan that would permit students to finance their post-secondary education by working for up to two years in a variety of community jobs. Even with a price tag that steep, however, the program can fund at most 150,000 Americans a year by 1997, a fraction of the potential demand and a far cry from Clinton's campaign pledge that "every young American could borrow the money necessary to go to college" by "giving two years of his life to rebuild America...
Scientists funded by the genome project have their work cut out for them. As of last week, only about 6,100 human genes had been identified, and only a tiny fraction of the genome sequenced. But the rate of discovery is picking...
...time by Le Charivari. Nobody can guess how many watercolors and drawings he turned out during these interludes -- one of his writer friends, Theodore de Banville, remembered a studio full of "cartons overflowing with drawings, so swollen that they could not be shut" -- but only a tiny fraction of them has survived. Quite a lot of that fraction went on view last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in "Daumier Drawings," jointly organized by the Met and the Stadelsche Kunstinstitut of Frankfurt...
...issues the electorate must face are often far beyond its powers of comprehension. The complexity of our government and our policies has far outstripped the general level of education in society. Only a small fraction of the electorate has the schooling and preparation to wade through the almost impenetrable fog of issues and thick rhetoric of American politics...