Word: fractions
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...Senate is considering a bill to grant 400,000 work visas annually for low-skilled immigrants in addition to the 140,000 visas currently available to foreign workers (including highly skilled ones). That's like adding a city the size of Atlanta each year. But it's a small fraction of the U.S. workforce of 139 million. "No credible estimate exists that [shows] immigrants cause unemployment," says James Smith, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. On the other hand, immigrants at least cause displacement by taking low-paying jobs from some Americans...
...front of 40,000 people a night? How do I get my hands on the MLB league minimum of $327,000 or, even better, reach the league average salary of $2.5 million per season? How can I get my mug on a Topps baseball card? These represent just a fraction of the perks that athletes who reach the pinnacle of the baseball world receive each year...
...year would no longer have to contribute to the cost of their children’s tuition, room, and board. In addition, parents with annual incomes between $40,000 and $60,000 would see substantial cuts in their contributions to tuition. But undergraduates still had to foot a fraction of their tuition costs through paid work or student loans. The school’s policy on student contributions is now set to change. Under Harvard’s old guidelines, students on financial aid had to fulfill a “self-help” obligation?...
This is especially important for drug cases. The number of people arrested on drug charges at Harvard is no doubt just a tiny fraction of the total number of Harvard community members who have used illegal substances. So how do University Police decide whom they should arrest? While we have no evidence that recent campus drug arrests follow any sort of pattern, you don’t have to take my word for it: our reports allow you to track the University Police yourself. That would be impossible if you didn’t know the identities of students charged...
...year would no longer have to contribute to the cost of their children’s tuition, room, and board. In addition, parents with annual incomes between $40,000 and $60,000 would see substantial cuts in their contributions to tuition. But undergraduates still had to foot a fraction of their tuition costs through paid work or student loans...