Word: fractionization
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...year for a teacher to be assigned to a school--unless he is part of the accelerated-certification program. "Going through what the board of education usually requires is not what I had the patience for," says Fogel. "I'm doing this practically as a volunteer"--for a fraction of his former salary...
...year for a teacher to be assigned to a school - unless he is part of the accelerated-certification program. "Going through what the board of education usually requires is not what I had the patience for," says Fogel. "I'm doing this practically as a volunteer" - for a fraction of his former salary...
...have managed for the most part to stamp out industrial-scale piracy of CDs and movies in the developing world, life-saving medicines are another matter. Companies in India and Brazil, for example, have copied AIDS treatments and distributed them in the developing world at a fraction of the cost charged in the West for the brand-name product. Whatever the outcome of the resulting disputes in the courts and at the World Trade Organization, the moral weight of life-saving necessity may have already won the case in the court of public opinion. Indeed, some pharmaceutical companies have agreed...
...They'll go through the motions of endorsing the intifada, calling on Israel to lift its siege of Palestinian areas, probably also calling for international protection of Palestinian civilians. The only controversy around the Palestinian issue is the fact that only a tiny fraction of the $1 billion promised to the Palestinians by the last Arab League summit has been delivered - in large part because of concern over corruption in Arafat's administration. They'll probably find a way around this by releasing the money in monthly tranches, in order to allow for close scrutiny of how it's spent...
...lost their lives, consider what the numbers would have looked like if the situation were reversed and the Palestinian leadership enjoyed an overwhelming advantage in firepower and the ability to kill hundreds or thousands at a time if they so chose. Does anyone believe they would have shown a fraction of the same restraint, warning people, for instance, to evacuate buildings before conducting retaliatory strikes...