Word: fractionation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, MIT's relationship with Cambridge over the past decade has been relatively placid. But this is largely due to MIT's propitious location. While Harvard is surrounded by residential areas, MIT is contiguous with primarily industrial land. As a result, its territorial expansion has raised only a fraction of the ruckus caused by Harvard...
Although last season the Dartmouth crew edged the Black and White by a fraction of a second, the Big Green posed no more than a paltry threat to Radcliffe on Saturday, trailing from the start and drifting home in a weak...
...this phrase, Rosovsky invokes the two biggest stumbling blocks to educational reform at Harvard. First, the main agitators for change are invariably students, each of whom attends Harvard for a fraction of its 350-year history. In what amounts to little more than an overnight stay in Cambridge, no student preoccupied with the exigencies of academic life can afford to take on the institution. By the time he has learned the ropes, he has sheepskin in hand and is 'among the company of educated men and women...
...producers enormous potential clout over consuming nations. Explains a top energy official in Washington: "A small refiner, or even a small country, could find itself reliant on a single country for perhaps as much as half its oil deliveries. But the amount might equal no more than a tiny fraction of the producing nation's total exports." European Community officials warn that France and other governments risk "political blackmail" by OPEC members, who may demand payoffs like recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization as well as top dollar for oil. With their citizens freezing or deprived of gasoline during...
With the psychological thrust of the plan blunted, very little remains. Even the administration does not anticipate the budget cuts will reduce the cost of living in the near future. The credit controls apply to a fraction of consumer borrowing too small to be significant. And the 10 cents a gallon fee on gasoline will actually boost the consumer price index an estimated seven tenths of one per cent. Carter seeks to show voters he is doing something now; they will feel the pain later, the benefits never...