Word: cents
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Under the Harvard pension plan, however, the longer a professor remains an active lecturer the larger is his pension. Under the present system, the University contributes 12 1/2 per cent of the professor's yearly salary to a pension fund that is turned over to the professor upon his retirement. Formerly, the professor himself used to put 5 per cent of his salary into the fund, with the University providing the remaining 7 1/2 per cent. As it stands now, the professor actually receives 12 1/2 per cent of his salary annually, while a member of the Faculty...
Participation in the community service programs of Phillips Brooks House showed a marked comeback this year after slumping during 1957-58. Robert R. Little '60 estimated yesterday that the number of active members of P.B.H. "increased by 15 per cent to about 700," in spite of increasing demands upon the extra time of undergraduates...
After receiving completed questionnaires from 68 per cent of the 652 graduates, Fortune ascertained that the average '49er underestimated his prospective earnings on graduation...
...booms for Sanson and his brother builders, conservative economists gloom over the facts and figures of what seems to promise serious economic trouble. The cost of living has vaulted 365% since 1948, 27% in the past two years. More than 120 billion cruzeiros, each worth four-fifths of a cent at the free-exchange rate, are bursting pocketbooks (v. only 20.5 billion, each worth 5.4?, ten years ago). From a $248 million foreign-trade gain in 1956, Brazil plummeted into a $97 million loss in 1957, a $166 million loss in 1958. Loan interest, loan repayments and massive installments...
Redhead. A million-dollar baby (Gwen Verdon) in a five-and-ten-cent storehouse of musical comedy gewgaws...