Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he was a Soviet naval officer and a veteran of World War II who was watching West Germany rearm. Said Adzhubei: "What would your attitude be?" Said Kennedy: "If I were a Soviet veteran, I would see that West Germany now has only nine divisions, which is a fraction of the Soviet forces. It has no nuclear weapons of its own. It has a very small air force-almost no navy. So I do not see that this country represents a military threat now to the Soviet Union. No one is ever going to invade the Soviet Union again...
...received by Morse code from Peking more than 4,000 words in flawless Spanish, relayed the slanted news free to Santiago newspapers. They also mailed without charge a weekly report to hundreds of Chileans. The daily local propaganda campaign, estimated to cost $10,000 a year, is only a fraction of a massive five-year-old drive by Peking to win friends and influence governments throughout Latin America. "If the Red Chinese get fully under way," warns a U.S. expert, "we think that their efforts to penetrate Latin America can be more effective than the Russians...
Most of the milpas are very rocky, with white stones everywhere in the black earth. The Indians hoe around the rocks and around the corn, deft and sure in upturning the green, prolific weeds within a fraction of an inch of the corn shoots--never uprooting the corn, never cutting through the bean plants or squash vines they grow with the corn...
...Soviet territory. And in straight trade deals with the new rulers of the Chinese mainland, the Russians forced their comrades to pay top prices for Soviet and satellite products, ranging from trucks to saccharin, when the same Western-made goods were available in Hong Kong at a fraction of the cost...
...Studied Art. Even then, the government gets only a fraction of them. Ducking taxes is an honored institution and a studied art. In some countries, less than half the qualified taxpayers even file a return. Many self-employed professional men keep no records of income; businessmen often keep two sets of books. Brazilian tax experts estimate that Rio de Janeiro's merchants alone cheated the government out of $1.9 million last year. Out in the country, big landholders drive off revenooers at gunpoint, never pay a cruzeiro. According to the taxmen in Buenos Aires last week, if all Latin...