Word: fractionalism
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...cord that hooked each of them up to a trolley loaded with complicated apparatus. Peter Schmidt, 18, and Lawrence Baldwin, 20, got out of their room only once a day, to walk a few steps down the hall and be weighed on a scale that is accurate to a fraction of an ounce. Even then, the trolley and tubes went with them...
...applied the same criticism to government-to-government foreign aid programs. Since a large amount of productive activity in underdeveloped nations in private hands, he said, the "relatively small fraction" of government-controlled enterprise can contribute only slightly to economic growth...
...industry will inevitably be harmed if the new program is enacted. To put them back on their feet, the Administration will propose tax relief and, if necessary, a program for retraining workers. But the President's economic advisers point out that imports compete with only a tiny fraction of U.S. industry; current competitive imports, valued at $5 billion, amount to about 1% of total U.S. production. And the Administration is sure that in the long run the economic growth inspired by lower tariffs here and abroad will more than take care of the domestic dislocations...
...that he was a Soviet naval officer and a veteran of World War II who was watching West Germany rearm. Said Adzhubei: "What would your attitude be?" Said Kennedy: "If I were a Soviet veteran, I would see that West Germany now has only nine divisions, which is a fraction of the Soviet forces. It has no nuclear weapons of its own. It has a very small air force-almost no navy. So I do not see that this country represents a military threat now to the Soviet Union. No one is ever going to invade the Soviet Union again...
...received by Morse code from Peking more than 4,000 words in flawless Spanish, relayed the slanted news free to Santiago newspapers. They also mailed without charge a weekly report to hundreds of Chileans. The daily local propaganda campaign, estimated to cost $10,000 a year, is only a fraction of a massive five-year-old drive by Peking to win friends and influence governments throughout Latin America. "If the Red Chinese get fully under way," warns a U.S. expert, "we think that their efforts to penetrate Latin America can be more effective than the Russians...