Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rights, the reorienting of culture around individuals. We obviously value that. But like all human gains, it has been purchased at a price. Most people faced with greater freedom from family, law, village, clan, have used it for good purposes -- artistic expression, economic entrepreneurship, self-expression -- but a small fraction of people have used it for bad purposes. So just as we have had an artistic and economic explosion, we have had a crime explosion. I think the two are indissolubly entwined. When that prosperity puts cars, drugs and guns into the hands of even relatively poor 18-year-olds...
...routine one. But the fear of it is growing exponentially and in the process changing the way America drives. The FBI estimates that there were 25,000 carjackings last year, up an alarming 25% from the year before. That is still only a tiny fraction of the 1.6 million annual car thefts, but when combined with other incidents in which cars have become both weapons and targets -- the drive-by shootings in Washington or the cinder blocks dropped off highway overpasses in Detroit -- it leaves an impression of rolling danger that fuels a kind of hysteria. "Our agents say there...
...Harvard endowment could and should become a primary case study for Business School students. Extensive human resources could be devoted to analyzing the past and future of the markets at a fraction of the cost of Meyer's salary. Actual management decisions would be only be made by the committee...
Proportional representation requires successful candidates to get only one tenth of the number one votes cast (approximately 2,300 votes in 1991, in a city with a population of about 93,000) to be elected to the city council. This rather small fraction of the total vote allows, and actually encourages, candidates to cultivate issues and policies that generate the limited but very staunch supporters who can deliver their number one vote for reelection. These staunch supporters come to expect absolute partisan loyalty from candidates, and this leaves no room for compromise on many policy issues. Minority policy positions...
...Justice Department position, as argued at the trial by attorney David Seidman, is that MIT's tuition, or whatever fraction can be afforded by a certain student, constitutes a price for education and therefore must conform to antitrust standards...