Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they wrote in a Jan. 4 letter, ``the end of the cold war was neither the end of history nor the end of danger.'' Furthermore, B-2 builder Northrop Grumman has quite a deal for the Pentagon: the new batch of radar- eluding, batwinged planes will cost just a fraction of what the first...
...starve for development capital. Rebuilding credibility required a long stretch of austerity and the sale of inefficient state operations like banks and telephone companies, measures begun by President Miguel de la Madrid and continued by his successor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Salinas got foreign-debt payments down to a fraction of the annual budget and performed the ultimate miracle of lowering Mexico's inflation rate from 157% to less than 10% by last year. By 1989 the gross domestic product was growing again in per capita terms. A debt-reduction agreement the next year started foreign money flowing back...
...remaining few cases--a small fraction of the total number, Rosenthal said--are most likely the result of a low-level winter gastroenteritis...
...quarks are the building blocks of all the particles within atomic nuclei. They had found the first five by 1977, and now the top quark, the sixth and heaviest, has been identified at Fermilab, near Chicago. It took 440 scientists to spot the top, which disintegrates in an infinitesimal fraction of a second...
...millions of dollars worth of rare Harvard books he destroyed constituted only a fraction of the clues that led police to 42-year-old former University employee Stephen L. Womack, authorities said...