Word: fractionation
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...year of the student political worker will have to be remembered as the year of the student copout: though some young people are effectively involved as the election campaigns come down to the now-or-next-time stage, those performing in the fall are a small fraction of the many who made promises in the spring...
...husbands whose passions, and fountain pens, run dry at the midi. Trial selections of mid-calf fashions sold so poorly that stores in Miami, Atlanta and Portland ordered only 10% of their fall stock in the longer lengths, are getting little help from customers in reducing even that small fraction. At a Los Angeles fundraising party for Governor Reagan this month, a cool three out of 450 lady guests turned up in midis; the rest brazened it out in long gowns or pants. Even the handful of long skirts sold at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, Calif., are being...
Whoever emerges as the successor, one thing is certain: though he will be in formal command of the most populous (33.5 million) and powerful country in the Arab world, he will enjoy only a fraction of the authority that Nasser wielded. The key question is whether he will be sufficiently strong to resist Arab pressure to resume the war with Is rael. Nasser had been well aware of this dilemma. A few years ago, he told a British biographer, David Wynne-Morgan: "I categorically do not want to go to war with Israel. But any Arab leader who says...
...small fraction wanted the war to continue as it was before Mr. Nixon ordered the Cambodia invasion. About three per cent of the blacks and eight per cent of the whites approved that course. Much larger groups. 24 per cent black and 46 per cent white, argued for a reduction in the battle tempo and a U. S. pullout as soon as the South Vietnamese could shoulder the full burden...
...River and the Gaza Strip. They would bar "Zionists" but would allow native-born Jews to live with them in a nonreligious society. By "native-born Jews," however, some Palestinians mean those born in the area before Israel came into being in 1948; that would amount to a small fraction of Israel's 2,800,000 people...