Word: fractionation
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...every one of its client states, the U.S. is separated by oceans from all its NATO allies except Canada. The Atlantic Alliance's ability to repel a Soviet invasion depends on reinforcements and supplies arriving from the U.S. after the fighting starts. Since airlifts can transport only a tiny fraction of this, the bulk of the critically important resupply could be sunk by Soviet submarines, land-based aircraft and surface vessels. To prevent this, contend Navy officers, U.S. warships, armed with antisubmarine and antimissile weapons, must escort supply convoys across the Atlantic. Not only is this naval capacity needed...
...small honeycombed disc on the front of the camera is a thin, gold-coated plastic foil diaphragm that acts as both transmitter and receiver of sound. The diaphragm emits a millisecond "chirp" that bounces back from the object aimed at and, in a series of steps that take a fraction of a second, fixes the lens at the precise focus, from 10 in. to infinity. Not an accessory, the device is an integral part of the camera, which will go on sale late this year. List price: about $280, v. $233 for the regular SX-70, which produces developed color...
Mellon did not return to English art in a systematic way until the late 1950s, and in fact no more than a fraction of the prodigious collection of the Yale center had been assembled before 1959. In that year Mellon met his chief aesthetic guide and mentor−his English Bernard Berenson, as it were−the late art historian Basil Taylor. Taylor, a great scholar of English art, possessed a sense of ethical delicacy almost inconceivable in the art world today (and certainly never shared by Berenson): he advised Mellon unofficially, for free, accepting only his expenses, lest...
...fraction of a second, and for the rest of his life," Saul Landau, a fellow at IPS, writes of Michael Moffitt, "fascism will have its most concrete meaning...
...heat-storing ceiling tile made of concrete with a core of heat-retentive salts, which is capable of providing 75% to 80% of a house's heat. In Britain, Patscenter International, a well-respected research group, has discovered a still secret way of making photovoltaic panels at a fraction of the current price; panels to power a small family house, it says, would cost about...