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Word: fractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study attempted to calculate the fraction of FAS expenditures--including Faculty salaries and research costs, libraries and facilities cost and administrative costs--spent on undergraduates...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: The Value Of a Harvard Education | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...appointments have gone to women), the fact remains that since 1991, the percentage of senior women on the Faculty has only increased from 9.6 percent to 11.5 percent, an annual rate of change of less than 0.4 percent. At this rate, it would take almost 55 years for the fraction of tenured women at FAS to reach one-third...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Women Not Full Partners After 25 Years of H&R Marriage | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...percent reflects the strong Faculty consensus that that is about the right fraction for the class as a whole," Dean of Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam wrote in an e-mail message...

Author: By Peggy S. Chen, | Title: Worries About Summa Integrity Drive Downsizing Reform | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Before her fourth-grade class on the Monday after her Friday disappointment, Tracy Robinson loads the manipulatives--the little bars of different colors, each representing a different fraction--into plastic bags. When her students walk in, she distributes the bags. The book she was reading from on Friday is nowhere in evidence. She asks her pupils to use the bars to construct flat, box-shaped designs on their desks. Three of one color, they soon discover, will fill the same space as four of another. When each child has a mosaic on his or her desk, Robinson begins the verbal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW LESSON PLAN | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...denied funding this year to several groups, including the Collegium Musicum, WHRB and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Many others had their grant requests slashed to a fraction of what they needed. When money is scarce, it should be allocated in the most efficient method possible in order to impact the largest number of students...

Author: By Michael Omary, | Title: God Street Who? | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

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