Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently the brisk market in Hitler memorabilia has brought demands for the stamps' release. Two years ago Dr. Franz Sobek, then director of the State Printing Office, was set to sell the stamps to an anonymous collector for $250,000, a fraction more than 10 a stamp. But the Austrian Resistance Fighters objected to the idea that an official Austrian body should profit from "that face," and Dr. Sobek, who was president of the Resistance, quickly agreed. Sobek has since retired, and Austrian stamp dealers as well as lawyers for two important foreign buyers, said to be an American...
Because of cost alone, not everything that can be done with the system will materialize. But it is clear that the system is not being used to more than a small fraction of its capacity-even as it now stands. Transmission and reception points have been in operating order with little use at Larsen Hall, Pierce Hall, and the Computation Labs...
...alone has played plumber to more than 5,000 diseased hearts since 1962, and doctors attending last week's meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in Atlanta report that revascularization is being performed at an increasing number of hospitals. Still, doctors are reaching only a small fraction of their potential patients. Nearly 250,000 Americans a year, or the majority of newly identified atherosclerosis victims under 65, could benefit from reconstructive heart surgery. But because trained personnel and adequate facilities are in short supply, doctors are performing only 25,000 operations a year, a fact that Effler...
...shadowing rocks. That much was clear and appropriate and irony avoided until once, coming down a mountain on a dirt road, saw a raven flying its own distance down with a small stream. When the water passed under the road, however, the bird faltered the air, and for that fraction of time made a tragic decision-one flap of the wings that shadowed across the car, a short glide to curve with the road down the mountain soon beyond us. Somehow, the bird following our road showed a sense of freedom from it. But what have our roads done...
...University of Wisconsin incident, a good fraction of the audience consisted of demonstrators, who held up signs and attempted to shout down the speakers. One graduate student even shouted obscenities at one member of the "truth team" and suggested that he go to Vietnam and fight, if he was so thrilled with this war. The University of Wisconsin administration took no action against the demonstrators and would not cooperate with government agencies which wanted to investigate the situation...