Word: fractionation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students enjoy waking up early for morning classes, but a small fraction of the student body may have a legitimate complaint based on an obscure century-old rule...
...eyes now are on Eddie Shah, a feisty publisher of newspapers in northern England who plans to launch a national, computer-printed tabloid this spring. By signing a no-strike contract with the electricians' union and skirting other unions, Shah boasts that his expenses will be a small fraction of Fleet Street's. If Shah's paper, Today, is a success, his fellow proprietors are likely to applaud him as much as they curse the added competition...
Because of government cutbacks, Harvard expects to receive only a fraction of the $389,000 requested, according to Edwin Williams, a University consultant. Harvard received $200,000 for the microfilming project in 1978, but since then federal grants have steadily dropped to $75,000 last year, said project coordinator Kathleen A. Facos...
Williams said the microfilms which are made can be purchased by other libraries for a fraction of the cost of the filming. "We are really making these things available across the country," Williams said...
...There's a lot of talk that one didn't hear only a few years ago," says Glenn Loury, 37, a political economist at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "It's driven by a combination of circumstances: things are bad and getting worse for a significant fraction of the black community in the big cities, and there has been a palpable failure of the old classical strategies to produce results." Loury has become the most vocal member of what might be called the post-civil rights thinkers. The group also includes William Julius Wilson, 49, a University...