Word: cente
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Jennifer Wood, admissions officer for foreign students, said that while the number of foreign applicants increased by more than 50 per cent over the last few years, the number of acceptances fell 24 per cent over the same period. This decrease was in part due to a more limited financial aid budget, she added...
...figure, a 1.9-per-cent increase over last year, continues a 20-year trend that has more than tripled the number of college students since 1961, Lance Grant, a spokesman for the National Center for Education Statistics, which is preparing the report, said yesterday...
...center found that 42 per cent of 943 colleges and universities surveyed had experienced enrollment drops of 15 per cent or more since 1980, but that large enrollment gains at two-year community and junior colleges offset the trend...
...increasing numbers of women attending college also account for much of the gain, the center's surveys indicate. In the last ten years, the percentage of women in the college population has grown from 41 per cent to almost 52 per cent...
...other MX basing modes thus far considered. Furthermore, the President's proposal to harden existing silos fails to address the problem of land-based IBCM vulnerability because it is impossible where they are threatened by a modest improvement in Soviet accuracy. A 30 per cent increase in accuracy, for example, can compensate for a tripling of the hardness of the silo...