Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facilitated access to these documents. Assuming, however, that the administration was determined to provide each and every undergraduate with his/her own personal copy, it could have been done in a far less extravagant manner. The University could have paid Harvard students to deliver the packages at a tiny fraction of the cost of postage. If it took an hour per house to distribute the packages, and, say, four hours for the freshmen dorms, Harvard would only have had to pay for sixteen hours of student work. Besides a savings of thousands of dollars, all money spent would have gone directly...
...town who has to pose tougher than a steroid-fed General Patton. But it's not just a cause that The Rebel needs, it's a family, friends. Where Natalie Wood's acting slips up a little, the skillful filming covers up, setting Dean in a fraction of a frame filled with lonely cliffs and ravines...
...minded father. I give my dad credit for singlehandedly keeping my math grades high enough so I wouldn't be held back. My other worst subject was phys. ed.; I failed that three years in a row in high school. I couldn't do a chin-up or a fraction. I can do a chin-up now, but I still can't do a fraction...
James saw the very crest of the great immigrant wave. At the turn of the century, four out of every ten New Yorkers were foreign born. That fraction declined steadily -- until the past decade. Now, once again, New York City is America's melting pot. Today, local planning officials estimate, 2.1 million of the city's 7.1 million residents are from overseas, some 30%, a larger proportion than at any time since the 1940s. There are more Dominicans (an estimated 350,000) than in any city but Santo Domingo, more Haitians (225,000) than anywhere but Port au Prince, more...
...disguising himself as a wino ("That there is no effective form of defense against a derelict is an irreducible truth of city life"). Even the deposed Prince of Saint Sebastian hustles a string of personal appearances, with the Firm as his agent. But these passages make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself to Wren after he escapes a bomb planted in his apartment by the Liberation Front. "I don't know, Rus," she says, "sometimes I think it oughta be better than this...