Word: fractionization
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...valedictory to the World Bank, the non-oil-exporting nations of the developing world face painful economic adjustments and much slower growth in the years ahead just to keep from sinking any deeper into the petroleum bog. Aid from the industrial nations, complained McNamara, "remains a minuscule and insignificant fraction of their gross national product and is wholly inadequate to the urgent needs at hand...
...marijuana will be pulverized and blown into the plant's furnaces, which now burn either natural gas or oil. Company officials figure that each ton of pot equals 2.7 bbl. of oil and will produce 2,000 kilowatt hours of electricity-only a tiny fraction of the plant's daily output, so pot power will not significantly reduce customers' bills. Officials also believe that smoke from the generator's 350-ft. stack will not turn on passersby. But just to be sure, they plan to conduct test burns. Until then, the Miami News last week advised...
Lasers are not perfect weapons. Fog and reflective surfaces tend to diffuse or deflect their beam; they cannot cripple a target unless they focus on it for a sizable fraction of a second-a long time in missile warfare. To accomplish this, precision aiming is required. A study conducted at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico shows that an aiming angle correct to less than six one hundred thousandths of one degree must be rapidly achieved if a laser is to hit a missile 5,000 km (3,100 miles) away. Such precision is beyond existing technology...
...rate that prompted Brazil's generals in 1964 to overthrow duly elected President Joáo Goulart and establish a military dictatorship. Meanwhile, the Brazilian cruzeiro continues to plummet in value-from 26 to 54 per $1 during the past twelve months. Unemployment is climbing, and only a fraction of the young people entering the labor pool each year ever find jobs. One consequence: alarming crime rates in the ever more overcrowded cities...
...rear-ended in 1978. After a dramatic trial, the giant automaker won. Last week it compensated the parents of the three girls. The total amount: $22,500. In exchange, the families promised not to sue Ford in civil court. The $7,500-a-person payoff is a mere fraction of the million-dollar settlement Ford has agreed to in some of the 50 civil suits involving the ill-fated...