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Both the AAA and the BSA have yet to demonstrate that they speak for a significant fraction of the constituencies they claim to represent. The confusion could best be resolved by taking a poll to discover how many Black and Asian students expressly wish to be represented...
...financial details of every meal served and sold. The board decided to stick with the program, because without subsidies its schools would probably have had to stop serving its 98 free and 102 reduced-price meals each day. Though the students who eat those meals are a minor fraction of the district's 1,500 pupils, board members felt that they really needed the food. But if school lunch subsidies are pared again, Waverly may drop out after...
Companies with large amounts of cash on hand, including Seagram and Bendix, have also been benefiting. High interest rates have depressed the price of certain energy stocks like Conoco. As a result, the cash-rich firms can buy the undervalued ones at a fraction of their true worth...
...near disasters, and several Hong Kong investors left in frustration. The Ford and Mitsubishi distributor in Hong Kong and the Chinese set up a joint venture to assemble trucks and buses in Shenzhen. But the plant has become a heavy money loser, operating at only a fraction of potential output because of haphazard management and the lack of skilled workers...
...been either inadequate or flawed. Review of one study, for example, revealed that about half the women had incorrectly answered questions regarding whether their husbands were circumcised. A sizable portion of the men were also wrong in assessing their condition. Circumcision will correct two conditions that occur in a fraction of uncircumcised children: phimosis, a narrowing of the foreskin hampering erection and urination; and paraphimosis, retraction of the foreskin resulting in a cutoff of blood to the end of the penis...