Word: fractionation
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...Organization's plans for a massive, ten-year effort to stamp out smallpox all around the globe. Western Europe and North America, WHO estimates, now spend $70 million a year on vaccinations to protect themselves against a disease that occurs nowhere within their borders. Why not allocate a fraction of this, $180 million over ten years, to exterminate the smallpox virus wherever it still flourishes? Then, the argument runs, many fewer vaccinations and revaccinations would be needed...
...hysterectomies, Dr. James C. Doyle concluded that one-third "seemed to be unwarranted." Harvard's Dr. Osier Peterson, assistant visiting professor of preventive medicine, notes that tonsillectomies, "which most academicians agree is a useless operation," make up 6% of all U.S. operations-while they comprise only a fraction of 1% in Sweden...
...illustrate the danger of making too much of handouts. In a letter published by the Times last week, Wm. Theodore de Bary, a member of the Association for Asian Studies and Chairman of the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University, explained that the signers are only a fraction of the association's 3,374 members. "Since it is a policy of the Association not to take a stand or conduct a vote on political questions," wrote De Bary, "no person or group can claim to represent the membership. Signers of the statement must have been unaware such...
...addition to the films the University rents, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts now owns 125 films. This is only a small fraction, however, of the 400-500 films listed as essential for the study of the cinema in a report prepared by Stanley H. Hoffman, professor of Government, Laurence Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, and Gardner...
...controversy in February with a memo questioning ethics of grading "In a situation where professors hold life-and-death probability powers over their students. We are now an intimate part of the selection system. We are perhaps as proximate as whoever in Nazi Germany 'objectively' determined the fraction of a man's ancestry that was Jewish...