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...hands are far from delicate, but the impression of them on the helm is something like that. "Feels more like a bull fiddle today than a violin," Conner muses to himself, and the wheel is some kind of concert instrument clearly. In a continuous search where one-tenth of a knot is considered a quantum find, he is thought to be worth a full knot himself. Puffs of wind can be calibrated on his shoulder blades. Tiny fractions of speed are visible to him on the sails. Like a fastidious haberdasher, he is constantly pinching and reshaping the fabric...
None of the above. Officials at the Marshall Space Center recently announced that the maximum "fee reduction" which Morton-Thiokol would receive is $10 million. That's one-tenth of Ivan Boesky's fine. It's not nearly severe enough to be called a slap on the wrist...
Jonathan Kozol '58, the winner of the National Book Award in 1968 for "Death at an Early Age" and the author of the widely-acclaimed "Illiterate America," told an audience of 100 that presently the government is spending only one-tenth the amount needed to solve the literacy problem...
Body Bronze's equipment is the most up-to-date available, Scott says, and shoots out the lowest percentage of the harmful beta waves possible, one-tenth of one percent. Tanorama claims to be the latest also, but its percentage of harmful beta waves is considerably higher, 2.8 percent...
...worked with Soviet doctors under what he called "battlefield" conditions. In all, 299 people, most of them fire fighters and plantworkers, were hospitalized after exposure to estimated levels of radiation that ranged from 100 rads to more than 800 rads. In normal circumstances a person is exposed to about one-tenth of a rad per year. "Those in the lower-dose range will have modest and reversible damage," Gale says. Many of the 299 fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed to doses exceeding 800 rads and were listed in "grave condition." Nineteen of them were chosen either...