Word: cents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election day approaches, indications of a Conservative victory, while still evident, are decreasing. In two weeks the Tory lead in publicopinion polls has fallen from a comfortable 7 per cent to a hazardous 2 per cent. This decline is more the result of the campaign than of any failures of Conservative policy over the last eight years, for England has never been more prosperous than today...
...uncovered facts that were more and more disturbing to more and more people," Mrs. Glueck, now a research associate at the Law School, said recently. For, instead of finding that the penal system was turning out permanently reformed criminals as was expected, the Gluecks discovered that about 80 per cent of the adult male offenders released, continued to disobey the law and about 88 per cent of the juvenile delinquents recidivated within five years after their dismissal...
...year 1958-1959, the Society guaranteed refunds of at least ten per cent on cash purchases and eight per cent on charge purchases, and on May 27, the stockholders voted to pay refunds at the same rate...
Republicans gave Nixon a 57 to 43 per cent edge over Rockefeller for the Republican nomination, while Democrats gave Stevenson a 60 to 40 per cent advantage over Kennedy for the Democratic nomination...
...actual behavior of juveniles corresponded with the predicted behavior 91 per cent of the time in follow-up studies involving nearly 2000 cases. Adult male and female behavior has not yet been checked as extensively with the Glueck tables, but so far their accuracy in those two divisions appears to be confirmed as well...