Word: fractions
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Entertainment execs turn to potty humor only when they're scared. And they are. Technology has made it possible for anyone with minimal geek skills and lots of free time to make his own movies, TV shows, albums, books and even radio programs at the merest fraction of what it cost only a few years ago. It has suddenly become cheap to create your own entertainment--and cheaper still to distribute it online. It's the do-it-yourself dream, and it's seizing the imagination of thousands of auteurs--amateur and professional alike--yearning for a mass-market...
...Andy J. Marshall, head teaching fellow for Human Behavioral Biology, says the stories that DeVore tells in class represents only a fraction of his fascinating experiences...
...students supported the HSAS's efforts, and just a few weeks ago, the Undergraduate Council passed a resolution recommending the administration switch from the FLA to the WRC by a huge majority. Clearly, as has been suggested in the past, the HSAS does not represent just a small fraction of students. The students deserve to be not only heard, but to have a vote when it comes to making sweatshop policy decisions. More to the point, Harvard should switch from...
...according to Bradley, he'll fight on. In a pre-debate press conference Bradley quoted Mark Twain: "The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated." Are they? It's true that the candidates are fairly close in the delegate count and that only a small fraction of the nominating votes have been cast (there are more than 30 times as many votes at stake Tuesday as have been decided already), but Gore is comfortably ahead in the polls in every voting state and, barring an aggressive last-minute move by Bradley or a gaffe by Gore, there's no reason...
Clad in black, he wore to breakfast a gold pin, emblazoned with the fraction "3/4." That represented the three fourths of black men who had never faced legal trouble, he said...