Word: fractionization
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...they would be available. Green and tan credentials issued to reporters were not valid for such major events as the Pope's first meeting with Polish General Wojciech Jaruzelski and the memorial Mass for Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. For those occasions, the government issued blue passes to a small fraction of the accredited reporters. Said Reporter Barry James of U.P.I.: "Having a press card entitled you to go into the press center and watch events on closed-circuit television." The telecasts were sometimes hours late, and no one in authority seemed able to say when, or if, footage would...
...result of a new city ordinance which was timed badly for Harvard. The mandatory installation of more than 2200 smoke detectors in dormitory hallways at an estimated cost of $1 million started just as the dust from construction was beginning to settle--literally. Officials could only identify a small fraction of the roughly 55 dormitory alarms per month as construction-related, attributable to dust or vibrations...
Watsonville High School has about 3000 students. Only a tiny percentage of the student body ever ends up graduating, and only a fraction of these individuals ever make it to college. Attending an Ivy League college is practically unheard...
...sites all across the campus, but because his office was established only in 1981, he says he has not had time to inspect and treat all the areas of the University suffering from insect problems. "There has been improvement," he notes, "but I've only dealt with a fraction of the University." Until now, most of his work has been done at the medical area, the libraries and some of the University's kitchens. He estimates that he receives about 20 calls a day to do insect identifications...
Though race was clearly a factor in the voting, the lines were not as sharply drawn as in Chicago. While Harold Washington won just a fraction of the white vote, Goode netted an impressive 23% of it. If Goode, 44, is elected in November, it would put blacks in charge of four of the nation's six largest cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit. But even cushioned by a 5-to-l Democratic superiority, Goode is no shoo-in. The G.O.P. is girding for a tough fight, hoping to take advantage of a fractured Democratic Party and regain...