Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team's having roughly the same amount of money to spend on players. To that end Rozelle persuaded NFL owners--two dozen raving megalomaniacs--to share their television spoils equally. While there still remains a discrepancy between the richest franchise (Dallas) and the poorest (Indianapolis), the difference is a fraction of that in other pro sports...
...America's educational problems on what is essentially a literary and cultural movement, that's because it is. Paglia's assertion that humanities professors at Harvard are "trying to take away meaning, tell students it's all meaningless"--thus producing that "gnome" effect--simply isn't true. A small fraction of our humanities classes deal with literature produced in the second half of this century, much of which has come to be labeled "postmodern." The aim of these classes, like any others, is to give students a way of understanding and appreciating the material. Paglia's previous attacks on specific...
...disease has a way of upping the ante: the future always needs tending. After two bypasses my heart will not take a third--too dangerous for a surgeon to work with all the rubbery scar tissue on the heart, like so much plastic in his hands. With an ejection fraction of 31% (the ejection fraction is the percentage of blood expelled, with each heartbeat, from the left ventricle; normal is 50% or more), with venous grafts to the left anterior descending artery and with the right coronary artery totally occluded, I have pretty much exhausted the surgical techniques available until...
Growers are committed to pay up to $240 million over 20 years for the cleanup. Which means the industry that created much of the problem will have to pay only a fraction of the cost to correct it. Government will pay the rest. As for the Fanjuls, a spokesman says they are committed to pay about $4.5 million a year...
...planes and often takes to the floor of the Senate to support the tobacco industry. Under congressional rules, House and Senate members are permitted to fly on company planes if they pay the equivalent of first-class airfare on a regularly scheduled airliner. That fee is but a fraction of the actual cost to fly a corporate jet. And even that does not begin to cover the air-traffic-control and other services provided by the Federal Government...