Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institution study, even the Royal Brunei Navy has spent several million dollars upgrading its signal network. The international trade in nonnuclear arms now tops $18 billion annually?up from a mere $300 million in 1952, and a jump of more than 550% since 1964.* Moreover, this represents only a fraction of total military expenditures: in 1973 the nations of the world spent $240 billion to train, equip and maintain their armed forces. Until a few years ago, nations usually
...state hospital has an occupational therapy center, but only a fraction of the institution's population uses any of the facilities. For many of these inmates occupational therapy means making stuffed animals or mailing letters...
...squeeze shows, literally. The Los Angeles Times has reduced page size by a fraction of an inch to conserve costly paper, and the Miami Herald will follow suit next month. The Herald and others are switching from an eight-column to a six-column format, at least partly to save on wasted white space between columns. Papers like the Minneapolis Tribune, Houston Chronicle and Boston Globe are now cramming ten columns onto their classified pages instead of the usual eight...
Furthermore, the very earliest photographs in the show, even though they are only a small fraction of the pictures hung, actually are a good selection of early American photography. The Civil War photographs of Matthew Brady, Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, and the Western landscapes of Carleton Watkins, William Henry Jackson, and Timothy O'Sullivan--all in original prints--are wonderful. Some good early American photographers have been left out, but it almost seems worthwhile to lose them in order to be able to see ten 16 x 20 inch contact prints from O'Sullivan...
...files on 10,000 Americans. These allegations were at least partially confirmed by CIA Director William E. Colby in a secret accounting to President Gerald Ford. Colby is said to have told Ford that the CIA had maintained files on thousands of Americans, although he contended that only a fraction were under active surveillance. He also is said to have insisted that when his predecessor, James Schlesinger, became director in 1973, he halted the domestic spying on U.S. citizens, which had violated the law limiting the CIA to foreign operations...