Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical soul is so in harmony with that of Monroe that the two maintain an almost unbearable spiritual communication on stage. Also featured with the group are Bill's son, James, on guitar, and Rual Yarbrough from Alabama, on banjo. One can listen hard and still hear only a fraction of the genius in Bill Monroe's music. "You don't know what it is, though, until you play it," as one ex-Blue Grass Boy put it-"it is natural music...
...Republican Governor, John Reed, who appealed to the legislature to reclassify the Prestile Stream. Even the state's potato farmers, whose votes the Republicans hope to win, must accept some blame for the failure of Vahlsing's venture. Exercising typical New England caution, they planted only a fraction of the allotted acreage with sugar beets, thus denying Vahlsing the raw material he needed. Muskie's personal integrity is not under attack. Still, his judgment in dealing with Vahlsing, a campaign contributor, seems to have lapsed...
...some 35% below its 1964 peak of $75. Each $100 debenture will come with a warrant usable from six months to 41 years later to buy two A.T. & T. shares, thus stretching the dilution far into the future. As Bell officials must have hoped, the stock lost only a fraction of a point after the big news last week, even though the stock market as a whole slumped...
...think the big problem has much to do with confrontations and disciplinary responses. It seems to me possible that a fraction-a third, perhaps even a half-of our black students have been working on things other than their courses. Examinations are about to begin. Will they pass them? Will they even take them? And what if they...
...presentation, one assumes, anticipates a Big Red victory, and in recent seasons, it has been a valid expectation. But in the ECAC finals last March, the Crimson came within a fraction of dumping Cornell for the Eastern title, and the problems the Ithacans have had with Brown and Boston University this season indicate that they can be beaten...