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Half a Toothpick. With high-speed film, the resultant X-ray image is sharp enough to show blockages only one-fourth the width of a coronary artery, and to pick out collateral blood vessels only 80 microns in diameter-about half the thickness of a toothpick. Says Sones: "We hope eventually to be able to see vessels as small as 30 microns (.0012 in.) in diameter, because even vessels that small can act as effective collateral channels for blood from a diseased artery...
...Roman soldiery took 121 years to subdue Sicily and the boot of Italy and, says Menen, the army never took to the business of empire building in a big way until mercenaries were employed. By contrast, he argues, the soldiers of Islam conquered about 20 times the territory in one-fourth the time...
Featherbedding. In the early 1950s a reform group was elected, ordered a survey of the schools' business practices. A topflight management firm found colossal waste, no proper accounting, and a great deal of featherbedding in the buildings department. The experts estimated that nearly one-fourth of the nonteaching budget was wasted, but their report was highly technical and the voters missed the point; the old group successfully pinned the label of penny pinchers on the reformers. Anti-reformers swept the 1955 elections. A grand jury has since called the next two years "as corrupt as any in the history...
Kennedy's brightest hope was the plan to provide free medical care, including up to 120 days' hospitalization, for everybody aged 68 or older on the federal social security rolls, with a one-fourth of 1% increase in social security taxes to pay the cost. In staking his prestige on that sweeping plan, Kennedy underestimated the strength of Southern opposition. Shortly before the vote, Majority
...success of the reclamation technique is such that Field is considering building a new $10 million reprocessing plant in the Chicago area to double the Manistique mill's annual production of 36,000 tons-less than one-fourth of the newsprint needs of the Field papers in Chicago. And queries about the process are coming in from newspapers around the world. To some of them, the Field technique might make the difference between profit and loss...