Word: fractionation
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...optimistic about the eventual downfall of the S.A.O. Its strength, he feels, comes from a small fraction of the French army that feeds it with arms, munitions and men. If De Gaulle is correct in believing that the army will obey his orders, the S.A.O. will wither away. If De Gaulle is wrong and the French army does not respect the ceasefire, then, says Benkhedda, the F.L.N. is ready to resume the struggle. Some F.L.N. leaders believe that the S.A.O. cannot be liquidated for several years and plan to organize virtually the entire Moslem population into a home guard...
...Military expenditures by all nations equal at least two-thirds of the total national income of all the underdeveloped nations. If only "a fraction" of the international defense budget was diverted to economic aid to needy nations, it would result in "a marked increase in the rate of growth of real income in the poorer parts of the world." In the U.S.. the U.N. consultants reported, disarmament would require about 7% of the labor force to change jobs...
...bigger U.S. cotton growers, who could compete against any cotton growers anywhere if only given the freedom to do so. These efficiently automated farmers-mostly in the flat and well irrigated Mississippi Delta, the Texas plains and California's San Joaquin Valley-can work only a fraction of their productive lands because of acreage controls deliberately designed to favor small (less than 15 acres) and high-cost growers...
...yard freestyle, touching out Bulldog star Bob Townsend in a time of 2:02.9. Townsend led until the last turn, but after 200 yards he apparently thought the race was over (most freshman high school meets are swum over a 200 yard distance) and stopped for a fraction of a second...
...amount of money involved in purchasing the bonds would be only a small fraction of our foreign aid budget. The need for a forum of world opinion is apparent. Its decisions clearly effect the policy of the Soviet Union and other powers, providing a necessary softening of cold war frictions. Its subsidiary services have given invaluable aid to many underdeveloped countries. Most important, U.N. troops enforce a certain amount of peace and order where single power intervention would lead to large-scale war. Thus even at the cost of much inconvenience and expense, the United States must preserve...