Word: fractionation
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...think the big problem has much to do with confrontations and disciplinary responses. It seems to me possible that a fraction-a third, perhaps even a half-of our black students have been working on things other than their courses. Examinations are about to begin. Will they pass them? Will they even take them? And what if they...
...presentation, one assumes, anticipates a Big Red victory, and in recent seasons, it has been a valid expectation. But in the ECAC finals last March, the Crimson came within a fraction of dumping Cornell for the Eastern title, and the problems the Ithacans have had with Brown and Boston University this season indicate that they can be beaten...
...psychiatrists initially suspected, Grinspoon said, that a significant fraction of the sightings were related to the sighter's "primary process thinking," a kind of thought process more prominently exhibited in persons with certain kinds of mental disturbances...
Proportional representation systems generally require that a candidate receive only a certain fraction of the votes-less than a majority-in order to be elected...
Each man in such an action sees only a fraction of what happens. Yet many such personal recollections were chilling ones. "Everyone was scared going in?we thought there'd be heavy enemy troops there," recalls Charles...