Word: cents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Candidate Richard Nixon promised last year "to halt the inflationary trend in our fiscal and monetary policies, to check the drift that defeats our purposes and steadily narrows our range of choices." Now that he has begun to move cautiously against the inflation that last month shaved another half-cent of value from the already shrunken consumer dollar, Nixon has found his range of choices narrowed by both economic factors and a strong-willed Congress...
...during their period government contracted and funded research rose eight-fold to 55.4 million dollars. This cost Harvard virtually nothing but it makes the budget look much bigger and distorts how much costs have really risen. Delete this amount and the real (non-governmental) expenses increased by 122 per cent, not 200 per cent (from 43.2 million dollars to 96.0 million dollars...
...tenants resubmitted a petition calling for a one-year moratorium on all rent increases pending "a full reconsideration and discussion of the issues involved." Representatives of 422 families--about 85 per cent of the Peabody tenants--signed the petition, which was first presented on the April...
...total of 92 per cent of the freshmen got into one of their first four House choices this year, up from last year's 87 per cent. The 8 per cent who were left over this year were "arbitrarily assigned," Watson said...
Watson said the 65 per cent of this year's freshmen were admitted to their first-choice House. Last year 60 per cent got their first choice, and in the past few years the percentages has dripped as low as 50 per cent...