Word: fractionation
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...controlled only 42% of the paper's stock, he quietly signed up other rebels, including the paper's ambitious editor George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item largely because he had written more than 50 editorials urging Hawaiian statehood. With just a fraction of a percentage point over 50% of the stock then at his command, Twigg-Smith confronted his uncle and advised him to step down. A dumbstruck Lorrin P. Thurston took his nephew to court, but the suit was dismissed. In revenge, Thurston sold as much stock as he could to Copley...
Secretary McNamara says that the cost of developing the FB-111 would be a fraction of the $1.5 billion it would take to work up a totally new long-range bomber. The Air Force and its backers in Congress reply that a completely new "advanced, manned strategic aircraft" is needed for the mid-1970s, deride the FB-111 as an interim bomber that would not be even so effective as advanced versions of the B-52. The fight over the TFX, like the plane itself, seems to be entering a new phase...
...Paris' Palais Galliera last week, Daumier earned back the 12 francs, with interest, as the largest group of his works ever put up for auction went on the block. The 338 sculptures, drawings and lithographs were only a fraction of the collection of a French banker and founder of breweries through out North Africa named René Gaston-Dreyfus, 80, who began buying Daumiers before World...
...Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and a forerunner in discoveries in quantum theory, who received a Doctor of Science; and chemist Manfred Eigen, division director at Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry at Goettingen, Germany, a pioneer in perfecting techniques to measure chemical reactions to a minute fraction of a second, who also received a Doctor of Science...
...Times gets off only a fraction more easily. "By including so much, it sometimes obscures to the point where it might as well be omitting. But first find the story- itself a task demanding unfaltering and intrepid application; then struggle through the opening paragraph- a grave test of nerve and skill; and finally master the rest of the story paragraph by paragraph-an exercise requiring something near to gallantry; and one will, I believe, be as well informed as by reading any other newspaper, and sometimes much better. But there is no reason why it should be made so difficult...