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...September, Nunn charged that the Army had only "one-third of the ammunition and equipment it needs to ... sustain simultaneously a war in Europe and a minor contingency in the Middle East or outside of Europe." Nunn was referring to the official U.S. doctrine of having the resources to fight 1½ wars at the same time: a major confrontation with the Soviets in Europe, plus a regional skirmish. Said Nunn: "In the category of tank ammunition designed specifically to destroy other tanks, the Army has on hand about one-fourth of the requirement postulated by the Department of Defense...
Associate provost Jon Westling said his office sent 50 to 60 termination letters to junior professors in all of B.U.'s schools and colleges. But this is only about one-fourth of B.U.'s junior faculty, he said...
That was bad enough, but conservatives also feared that questions about things like Adam and Eve would lead to loss of faith in biblical accounts of Jesus Christ. One author cites a 1976 survey at the seminary in Louisville in which nearly one-fourth of the students polled thought it was probably or definitely not true that Jesus walked on water or was virgin-born...
...quickly forgetting their heritage. When I asked town residents the date of the village church, each gave me a different answer, ranging from the 10th to the 18th centuries. After digging through some old records, I traced it back to the 12th century, but no one was interested. These days, only one-fourth of the church pews are filled for Sunday Mass, most by elderly men and women who come early to visit friends interred in the church cemetary...
Directly south of Iran across the Persian Gulf is Saudi Arabia, whose traditional monarchic system remains intact but which is nevertheless highly vulnerable: only 8 million people live in a land one-fourth the size of the U.S. that possesses the world's largest proven oil reserves...