Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THREE-fourths), says the eager second-grader as he holds up a card with the fraction spelled out in Japanese hiragana script and numerals. Then a classmate selects a segmented triangle that illustrates the fraction. "Atte imasuka?" (Is that correct?) asks the teacher from Tokyo. "Hai," says the class in unison as little hands go up to answer the next question...
Eventually, using DNA probing techniques on 31 pediatric tumor samples, Garcea showed that a large fraction of the samples reacted with the sequence for the SV40 t-antigen...
...lead singer, Dito, does sound like Bono--but sans the passion. His voice is even scratchy enough at times to mimic Bryan Adams', but, again, with a fraction of the fervor...
...Satellite data helped pinpoint the targets. But the Navy complains that owing to shortcomings in communications, the Air Force was able to get most of the data -- as well as the glory -- while Navy personnel were stuck with a limited role because they could receive only a tiny fraction of the vital information. As part of a plan for a sweeping reorganization of U.S. intelligence, CIA Director Bob Gates now says he will fix the mess so that all services have ready access to such intelligence data in the future...
...West, though more than $80 billion has been pledged in various forms, only a small fraction of that amount has been delivered. The rest is bogged down in national and international bureaucracies or stalled by confusion in Russia. The European Community has committed $4 billion in humanitarian aid and technical assistance, but less than 10% of it has reached its destination...