Word: fractionalism
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Good times. For despite the season's financial success, nothing basic has changed. There is no way to increase the productivity of live performances, nor is there any way theater can compete for any more than a fraction of the huge audiences enjoyed by TV and movies...
...said he used calculus without ever having learned about it," the filial, but still skeptical, grandson explains carefully. (Norris is engaged in finishing all his own roast beef and a fraction of his identical twin's sentences.) "It is a difficult thing to check, isn't it? But he was a clever man--an astronomy buff, used to have the whole family up to look at the planets." Ross goes on to the next subject. When unquestionable authority is lacking, even compilers of record books make do with circumstantial evidence...
...Institution study, even the Royal Brunei Navy has spent several million dollars upgrading its signal network. The international trade in nonnuclear arms now tops $18 billion annually?up from a mere $300 million in 1952, and a jump of more than 550% since 1964.* Moreover, this represents only a fraction of total military expenditures: in 1973 the nations of the world spent $240 billion to train, equip and maintain their armed forces. Until a few years ago, nations usually
...state hospital has an occupational therapy center, but only a fraction of the institution's population uses any of the facilities. For many of these inmates occupational therapy means making stuffed animals or mailing letters...
...squeeze shows, literally. The Los Angeles Times has reduced page size by a fraction of an inch to conserve costly paper, and the Miami Herald will follow suit next month. The Herald and others are switching from an eight-column to a six-column format, at least partly to save on wasted white space between columns. Papers like the Minneapolis Tribune, Houston Chronicle and Boston Globe are now cramming ten columns onto their classified pages instead of the usual eight...