Word: onefourth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...yellow fever in Latin America, leprosy all over Asia, TB in India and Europe. Last week WHO got its strongest testimonial to date: Russia, which walked out in 1949, walked back in. Typically, the Bolsheviks refused to pay $3,800,000 in back dues, offered to settle for about onefourth...
...most New York companies, automatically insures every New York driver who now carries liability coverage, along with members of his household or guests in his car, against bodily (but not property) injury that is the fault of any uninsured driver. Most of the state's mutual companies (onefourth of the total) will also pay damages regardless of who is to blame. The additional coverage (up to $10,000 per person but not more than $20,000 in all) is now free but will cost from $2.50 to $4 to drivers who choose to keep it when they renew their...
...will give Nelson Bunker Hunt, 29-year-old son of Texas Oilman H. L. Hunt, exclusive drilling rights in two 10,000-square-mile tracts. Hunt and Pakistan agreed to put a maximum of $42 million in exploration and development, of which Hunt will put up three-fourths, Pakistan onefourth...
...long, collapsible military maintenance shelter, which resembles a Quonset hut, made of canvas on a magnesium-alloy frame. It weighs slightly more than one ton (onefourth as much as other structures of the same size and strength...
...million; 2) the same proportion of the population would be working then as now; 3) the average amount a worker produces in an hour will continue to rise, at the 2%-per-year rate as it has for several generations; 4) the average work week will be cut by onefourth. Most important of these assumptions is No. 3. If more and better machinery, and more and better industrial organization continues to raise productivity at the old rate, 1980's worker will be able to turn out 88.4% more in an hour than the worker...