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Harvard accepted only 15.5 per cent of last year's 14,000 applicants, and Fitzsimmons said he expected the percentage to drop in the future...
...College Board Study, only 14 per cent of the schools surveyed predict an enrollment drop of more than 5 per cent, while 54 per cent predicted a relatively stable enrollment...
Selective Service spokesmen have said that 95 per cent of the 19-and 20-year-olds required to register last July and August have done...
Although anti-registration groups have accused Selective Service of lying and have set the compliance rate as low as 75 per cent, a recent General Accounting Office survey confirmed the government's statistics...
...continued his work on the dictionary, expanding the book to include the language of over 200 social groups within the Soviet Union. Twenty years after he made the first note, Uspensky (whose work is now funded by a federal grant), has collected more than 30,000 words. Seventyfive per cent of them have never been registered in any dictionary despite the fact that they are in everyday usage. He hopes to publish his work next year. "The authorities want to purify the language, to make it like distilled water," he says. "But no language can exist on that principle...