Word: fractionation
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...could do anything we wanted if we had the money," Goldhaber said, "but although we may be the wealthiest private dental school in the country, the yearly income from this source is only a fraction of the appropriation obtained by state schools...
...yard high hurdles produced more excitement than even the most optimistic fans had anticipated. McCullouch, a flanker on USC's championship team, jumped to his usually fast start. But Flowers, a pass receiver from Tennessee, demonstrated more football skill as he lunged and tumbled past the tape a fraction of a second ahead of his rival. Flowers' time of 7.0 tied McCullouch's NCAA indoor record...
Jodrell Bank Astronomer Bernard Lovell suggests that the observed pulsations "must involve a large fraction of the total energy available in a star like the sun." Thus, he says, "any intelligent beings who were ever in the neighborhood of such events would have been extinguished long ago." But some astronomers feel that they must investigate pulsars more closely before absolutely ruling out the possibility that they are creations of an intelligent race...
...best either had thrown until Saturday's test at West Point (only the weight throw and the shot put were not held in the new Madson Square Garden) was a fraction more than...
...spin continuously except for brief intervals when they are shut down to clean cages and replenish food supplies. When the test animals are finally removed and returned to the normal gravity of earth, their experience is roughly equivalent to that of astronauts suddenly subjected to weightlessness or to a fraction of terrestrial gravity...