Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whether to go along with pleas from the mental-health lobby for "parity" with other medical coverage, which would mean at least an 80% reimbursement of all mental-health treatment. As the Wilberts learned painfully, many insurers now sharply limit access to mental-health care and reimburse only a fraction of the costs, usually a maximum of 50% after high deductibles. Providing such coverage for the severely disabled alone would cost Americans $6.5 billion more a year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health...
...fraction-of-an-inch-long slivers of wood said to be pieces of Christ's Cross -- previously authenticated as relics by the Vatican -- sold at auction for more than $18,000 in Paris. Though the proceeds went to charity, the Vatican called the sale a possible...
...Potter's The Singing Detective, a TV miniseries that hopscotched among layers of reality and expected audiences to get their bearings gradually, by osmosis. Says Prince: "The way the numbers are parsed into Kiss is unique. They are abrupt, fragmented. The scenic design allows you to hallucinate in a fraction of a second. We change venue without lifting, lowering, moving or revealing anything. There is no waiting. It is two realities...
Unfortunately, physicians are able to characterize only a fraction of breast cancer patients as belonging to the "high risk" category before a tumor is actually identified...
Those are still the characteristics of virtually all the world's electric vehicles, which are powered by cumbersome battery systems. The traditional lead-and-acid batteries require 100 times the weight and 30 times the space of conventional gasoline tanks to push even the lightest cars a fraction of the distance -- less than 100 miles at 25 m.p.h. Nickel-cadmium batteries provide 50% more power but at eight times the price (around $30,000, replaceable every two or three years). Sodium-sulphur batteries offer three times the energy but run both hot (at temperatures of 600 degrees F) and volatile...