Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works represent just a fraction of the 1,600 TIME covers -- the only magazine covers so honored -- in the gallery's collection, most of which was assembled in 1978 from our archives in the Time & Life Building. Frederick Voss, a gallery historian and curator of the TIME collection, says the covers "still evoke the images and immediacy of that time. They are picture editorials of World War II that weren't captured anywhere else." They also stand out because of their unique style, which relied on the use of often mythical background symbols to establish the cover subject's significance...
...write to implore you to think carefully the next time you get the urge to waste your column inches on editorials as insane as the recent one lamenting the change of your weekly magazine's name. Only a small fraction of students read the magazine, and I assure you that they do not care what it is called or why. The Crimson is constantly urging the U.C. to use its resources in ways that benefit undergrads, not organization members. Perhaps you should take their own advice and stick to writing editorials that address student concerns, not your own petty missions...
...course, it's highly unlikely that all 2,920 people who might be eligible will get their money's worth form the overpriced set. And anyway, this small pool represents only a fraction of the number who must use the much less luxurious Malkin Athletic Centre...
...Business School in the past has been often marked by excessive spending for such a small fraction of the University's population...
...allies in the cold war spent trillions of dollars keeping the Soviet Union from blowing up the world. For a fraction of that amount, the West can help prevent the former Soviet Union from blowing itself up, with all the political -- and perhaps literal -- fallout that would mean for the rest of the world...