Word: fractionation
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...them in Providence without a band, without Section 18, and, I suspect, without a very large contingent of fans. They beat nationally-ranked Michigan State twice under similar conditions over the Christmas break. Harvard's squash team is the best in the country; yet they draw only a small fraction of the number of people who go to watch hockey. In short, a good team should not need a boisterous crowd to win! Art Powell...
...People, which opposes Wilson. "They say that I believe in a rigidly determined system and that I am therefore making a defense of the status quo." Wilson says he thinks that such an attack is levelled at a "straw man"--in fact he believes that only some fraction of human behavior, maybe about 10 per cent, is genetically determined, while all other differences can be culturally explained. He says his views reflect the notion that "God has not entirely abandoned man to the caprice of cultural revolution." As long as we have a biological foundation of human nature, Wilson says...
Manne said that the $300 billion "is not worth paying" and that "it would make better sense to allocate a fraction of this amount to further improvements in nuclear safety," and advocated a minimum-cost combination of energy conservation, fossil fuel power production, and some nuclear energy...
...York Assistant Attorney General Gus Harrow at week's end, "is our headache, not the court's." Both Stamos and Levine are men of modest means, and though Bernard Reis owns a Manhattan town house and an art collection, it is not likely that more than a fraction of the $9 million could be extracted from...
...charred surface in order to get more heat into the room." He was creating, in effect, something similar to what physicists call a "black body," a furnace-like cavity with walls that absorb and then emit practically all the heat and other radiation that reaches them; only a fraction of the radiation escapes through a small hole in one of the walls...