Word: fractionization
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...means escaping from the latest Oscar award acceptance speech only to be trapped within earshot of a disc jockey who considers it a felony to fall silent for a second. Some 5,000 radio and TV talk shows fill the air with an oceanic surf of gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about...
...impassable roads, bad weather and bureaucratic ineptitude, rescue workers took 48 hours or more to reach the most isolated hamlets. Finally the digging-out gathered momentum, unearthing the battered corpses with sickening regularity. By week's end the official death toll stood at nearly 3,000-a fraction, it was feared, of the actual total. More frightening still was the realization that a dread dimension of human failure had been added to an accident of nature: many who died of shock and exposure might have lived had help reached them more quickly...
Much of the tracksters' new-found stability comes from the ranks of the freshmen recruits. Yardling Alice Neuhauer took first in the long jump, an event Harvard is perennially weak in, with a leap of 4.96 meters. Teammate Karen Ueda was just a fraction off for second place. Neuhauser also finished third in the 60-yd. dash and could be a real boon to the Crimson's less-than-meaty sprinting division...
...when the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks last cracked the 1,000-point level. But rarely had an assault on the magic barrier been more furious-or inconclusive-than the trading melee that last week nudged the Dow briefly, and by the barest fraction, into quadruple digits...
Dentists are also victims of their own success. With improved equipment like high-speed drills, tooth capping and other repairs can be accomplished in a fraction of the time once needed. Preventive oral hygiene has also paid off in healthier teeth. The three-decades-old program of adding fluoride to drinking water has had dramatic impact on cavities-and so have fluoride toothpastes. An A.D.A. survey shows that a child who drinks fluoridated water from birth to age 14 develops 60% fewer cavities than a youngster who drinks unfluoridated water...