Word: fractionation
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...sheep and their meager crops in peaceful isolation from the wars and social turmoil that shaped the rest of Europe. Change came swiftly when Andorra established itself in the mid-'60s as a major duty-free area offering such irresistible bargains as gasoline and Chivas Regal at a fraction of their prices in Paris or Madrid...
Detroit, only a small fraction of the 1,000 people invited to a breakfast bothered to turn up. The group drew a mere 30 spectators at a gathering in a backyard in Brooklyn. G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock told the Brooklynites: "The average New Yorker pays $800 more in federal income tax today than four years ago. I think that's insane." His audience agreed, but still seemed a bit baffled by the Kemp-Roth 33% solution. As Ann Hickey told the Republicans at a subsequent stop in Upper Darby, Pa.: "I just...
...moving to deal with a particular peeve of the full-fare flyer: that once he or she managed to get a reservation and to elbow on board a crowded plane, chances were that the passenger sitting in the next seat and getting the same service had paid only a fraction as much. Indeed, in August, travelers on bargain tickets accounted for precisely 56.3% of the seats sold by the airlines, compared with 44.8% the year before. Trying to appease this irritated full-fare minority, American, Pan Am, TWA and British Airways have announced new sections in coach that are designed...
...confirmed ne'er-do-well. The film, in fact, aspires to little more than giving the audience a good belly laugh every 15 minutes or so. Your funny bone is taken good care of, all right, but a stand-up comic can do the same thing in a fraction of the time. Once the chuckling subsides you are left with just another low-budget Western and a vacuous feeling. Vacuous because the film is silly, and vacuous because you have to sit through all the gunfights, the gallows scenes and the final ride into the sunset...
Chomsky said that Indonesia started taking over the eastern half of Timor in 1975, and has since killed about as many inhabitants of the island as the Khmer Rouge has killed in Cambodea, in an island with a fraction of Cambodia's population, Chomsky said...