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Question: What giant multinational company has managed to lose one-fourth of its U.S. market share in the past decade and become a paradigm of America's failure to compete with the Japanese...
...hard enough on humans, but for Homarus americanus it can be deadly. As many as one-fourth of the Maine lobsters on flights to burgeoning markets in Asia die during the long trip, even though they travel in comfy insulated containers. A research team organized by the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is considering an answer to the problem: a rest stop at a first-class lounge in Hawaii. If they were plunked into a so-called relay pound, the weary crustaceans could stretch their claws and absorb oxygen from Pacific seawater for a day or so before...
Evangelicals, in fact, comprise merely one-fourth of the 28 million Blacks in South Africa. Representing a religious--but not necessarily a political--constituency, the evangelicals told de Klerk what he wanted to hear, and what he wanted to repeat to whites in his country...
More than one-fourth of all Native Americans live in poverty, Strickland said. Life expectancy is exceptionally low, he said, and suicide rates for Native American youths reach 10 to 100 times the level of youths in other groups...
...growl. The exhaust note, as you wind the little, high-revving, 116- h.p. engine up through five gears, sounds like one-fourth of a Ferrari. Or, memory says, like an old MG-TC or Porsche Speedster. Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...