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...said there was a need to balance New York City's budget in order to restore the city's credit rating but pointed out that it was very difficult to do since 75 per cent of the budget couldn't be touched...
Bellamy said that although the number of women in the state legislatures has increased, they still comprise only about 8 per cent of the total. Most of these are in the larger legislatures in which the job is considered part time and compensation is lower, she added...
...theory explaining the split maintains that professors in the natural sciences oppose the core because they believe its suggested requirements do not do justice to the "hard" sciences. "I think the Natural Sciences professors don't believe that any core that contains 20 per cent Natural Science requirements is justified in this day and age," Robert V. Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and an opponent of the core, said yesterday...
...engaged in some mass rite of spring, hundreds of freshmen each year compete in that venerable tradition, the "Run For The Houses." This year, statistics indicate, 70 per cent of them will wind up in the winner's circle...
Housing administrators have announced that 70 per cent of freshmen have been assigned to their first-choice Houses, while another 14 per cent received their second and third choice Houses...