Word: one-fourth
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...type most esteemed by the President is brand-named Jelly Belly, which -addicts vow-is to the ordinary jelly bean what foie gras is to liverwurst. About one-fourth the size of the Easter-basket staple and three times as expensive (up to $4 per lb.), Bellys come in an array of 36 flavors. Their manufacturer, Herman Goelitz Co. of Oakland, maintains that the flavors are so delicate that the beans should be eaten one at a time, not by the vulgar handful. How else to appreciate the richness of the coffee mocha, the tang...
...One-fourth of the drawings, spanning Picasso's career from age 13 to a few months before his death in 1973, have never been exhibited anywhere. More than one-third have never been displayed in the United States...
...there was some good news, too. Surveying about 17,000 high school seniors every year since 1975, University of Michigan researchers found that the number of students smoking daily has dropped by more than one-fourth in the past three years. Reasons: heightened peer disapproval and increasing concern about health...
...Dante Della Terza, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, the earthquake which struck southern Italy nine days ago has been a personal tragedy. The quake leveled his hometown of Sant Angelo dei Lombardi, killing one-fourth of the town's inhabitants...
...monks (out of 30) who remain at the Vinh Nghiem pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City are reminded by the bust of Uncle Ho and numerous red banners that the religion is tolerated only as an appendage of the state. In Laos, over the past five years, one-fourth of the peasant population of 3 million have swum or rafted across the Mekong River to Thailand. One of the most famous of these waterborne refugees is Laos' 88-year-old Supreme Patriarch, Pra Yodkaw Vachirorods, who sighs, "Buddhism is alienated and separate from the people. Religion is dying...