Word: fractionization
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...anymore. Today TV broadcasts are just starting points, raw material to be curated in a collective online canon. During the election, I was immersed in political news and comedy, but I saw only a fraction of this material--interviews, skits, Joe the Plumber encounters--on a television. I saw bits embedded on blogs and on YouTube. I saw them straight up, or edited and surrounded by comments. If I saw the Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin on the liberal website Talking Points Memo and you saw it on the conservative Townhall.com did we really see the same program...
...higher number of students. thus eliminating their 16-student caps and losing their seminar designation. Junior seminars are non-required courses “designed to introduce students to research in a particular field of economics,” according to the course catalogue. While only a fraction of the 238 current junior economics concentrators have elected to take the courses, enrollment is not guaranteed. This semester, 97 students lotteried for 48 slots, according to Jeana Lee, an undergraduate course assistant. “I thought it was one of the best experiences I had in the econ department...
...view, yields on U.S. 10-year Treasury notes will fall to between 1.5% and 2% by the end of 2009. This is because the banks are broken and their customers are keen to spend less. The monetary base, the money element that the Fed can control, is a fraction of credit outstanding in the U.S. system ($2 trillion versus $47 trillion). No matter how fast base money is pumped up, the reduction in credit outstanding will overwhelm it. During this phase we should expect credit contraction and its attendant deflationary effects on asset prices and consumer goods and services...
...afford to do a free dating site? And why not charge monthly fees like all the others do? SY: We have 15 employees, while Match.com, etc. have about 300. Although we have a fraction of their workers we have an equally good Web site...
While the disclosed assets represent only a small fraction of the University’s total holdings, the shift hints at possible changes in the breakdown of the University’s investment portfolio, as Harvard’s money managers seek to navigate continuing market turmoil...