Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, June 24), can gain immunity only from contracting the disease itself or from preventive inoculation with a new vaccine prepared especially to combat it. Despite the best efforts of medical men and vaccine manufacturers around the world, there will not be time enough to immunize more than a fraction of the U.S. population before the disease strikes in force...
Political tensions arise because of the uneven distribution of this land among the peoples of the earth. Whereas Canada has 22 acres per person, the United States has between six and nine for each citizen, some nations such as India and Japan, have only a fraction of an acre for each...
Florida doctors scoffed at Edwards' fear that the drugs might eventually lose their effectiveness. Says Dr. Eugene Flipse, director of the chest unit at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital: "Our relapse rate now is about nine-tenths of i%, which is a fraction of what it used to be when about one out of every three released patients came back." Adds Dr. Roberts Davies, the state TB board's medical director: "I don't know of any informed [medical] opinion that we should keep patients longer than...
...national debt due for refinancing within the next five years, the problem will get worse unless something is done soon. Many bankers argue that the Treasury should have moved much faster to keep U.S. Government securities rates in line with the overall money market. By hiking rates a fraction at a time, always too little too late, Secretary Humphrey has, in effect, guaranteed the failure of long-term issues. He has also increased the margin between Government and corporate bonds instead of narrowing it. On a straight interest basis, Government bonds paid as much...
...France had voluntarily accorded in 1954 (in Tunisia and Morocco) what she finally accorded under the pressure of terrorism, she would not be suffering from this intolerable feeling of humiliation." Aron's advice: negotiate with the Algerian rebels, slowly transfer power to the Moslem nationalists, and spend a fraction of the cost of the war repatriating Algeria's Europeans to France. Until recently Aron was as insistent as most Frenchmen that only by holding Algeria could France continue a great power...