Word: fractions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Margins Are Small, Too Not much marketing will be needed to sell the Nano to aspiring Indians like the ones I met in Pune. Indians buy about 1.4 million cars and 7 million two-wheelers a year. Even if the Nano initially grabs just a fraction of this market, as Tata executives expect, demand will outstrip the current annual production capacity of 45,000 cars - meaning there will likely be long waiting lists and disappointed customers. But Tata Motors can't make more Nanos due to a controversy over construction of what was to be the Nano's main factory...
...Amazon, I blanched at the $16.19 price. Every Kindle text I've purchased since Amazon started selling the device in November 2007 has been $9.99. Indeed, that was one of the Kindle's main draws: you could buy books wirelessly, on demand and at a fraction of the cost of their printed peers. Case in point: Littell's book was listed in Amazon's Kindle store with a hardcover price of $29.99, making the digital version seem like a real bargain. But later I discovered that Amazon's bookstore was selling the new hardcover for $17.99. So the Kindle saved...
...world has changed for print media. On Jan. 9, the Hearst Corp. announced that the financially strapped paper was for sale. If no buyer could be found within 60 days, the paper would be forced to close its doors or produce a Web-only version with a fraction of its staff. The P-I's demise is a sign of the times, coming in the wake of the Feb. 27 closure of Denver's Rocky Mountain News weeks short of its 150th anniversary, while the San Francisco Chronicle, another Hearst paper, has been put on notice that its days...
...very small fraction of people infected with HIV, the body's immune response is able to control the virus and prevent it from progressing to full-blown AIDS. Rockefeller scientists found six such people with high levels of the antibodies that inhibit HIV proliferation and keep it from invading new cells. Taking blood samples from these special few, the researchers isolated the antibodies and set about discovering how they work...
...course, a mathematician can show anyone who has a minute's time that the markets can go down for a nearly infinite number of days if the decreases get smaller and smaller. For investors who want to get a small fraction of their investments back sometime in the next decade this sort of academic argument may be didactic, but it has no practical use. What is likely to happen to the market is that it will fall another 15% or 20% and then trade sideways, perhaps for several years. That is what happened from 1965 to 1981.There were peaks...