Word: onefourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them are ominous figures. They conclude that from 1978 to 1985, under a SALT II treaty, the Soviet Union would increase its nuclear warheads threefold, the U.S. by a half; the Russian capacity for area destruction would go up a half, the U.S.'s equivalent capacity by onefourth; the Soviet ability to destroy our buried missiles would increase tenfold, ours to destroy theirs would go up fourfold. Nitze rejects the notion that the Soviets want only to be equal. "To them a big-SALT II Critic Paul Nitzeger advantage is a bigger advantage," he says...
...result: too many writers are chasing too few magazines, giving financially squeezed editors little incentive to raise their rates. Consumer prices have nearly doubled in the past decade, but the average payments for major articles (roughly 3,000 words) by the ten largest-circulation magazines have risen by only onefourth. A few markets have become more lucrative: the skin magazines ($2,250 for Playboy, $1,200 for Hustler) and some city and regional magazines ($1,000 at New West, $1,100 at Texas Monthly). But other magazines have not raised rates at all: Washington Monthly has been paying writers...
...young men rushing westward by the thousands to stake their claim to 160 acres of public land, free of charge. More than a century later, the range has become the home of agribusiness conglomerates and huge farms of thousands of acres; the lone homesteader who tilled his quarter section (onefourth of a square mile, which totals 640 acres) has gone the way of the American buffalo...
...involved in sports, art and other fields, and tourism within the Soviet Union is being expanded. But Western scorekeepers fault the Soviets in other areas, notably human rights, including the treatment of political dissidents and would-be emigrants. Although the Kremlin has cut the price of emigration visas by onefourth, to 300 rubles ($405), and allowed some dissidents and relatives of those outside to emigrate, people who apply for the visas are usually penalized immediately by a loss of their jobs...
...Once a movement that leaped like brush fire along the 19th century frontier, the U.M.C. has suffered a net loss of 518,000 members in the past four years-the biggest of any church in U.S. history. Over a longer time span Sunday school attendance has slid by onefourth, the once-prized foreign missionary force by one-fifth. A recent survey by U.M.C. program planners found that grass-roots Methodists bitterly distrust church officials...