Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whatever they knew or didn't know, Harvard students turned out to vote in numbers 50 per cent higher that ever before...
...followed closely the CCA and Rent Control Task Force slates. Cambridge's complex proportional representation system makes it easy to guage slate loyalty. Under this system, surplus votes and votes for candidates eliminated from the race are redistributed to the second-choice candidates. Among Sullivan's surplus, 96 per cent went to other supporters of rent control, an astonishingly high percentage...
...half of domestic natural resources, and the same figure probably holds for oil. Ralph Nader likes to tell audiences they already control a majority of American oil resources. A more conservative Ford Foundation estimate several years ago placed the figure for domestic oil and gas at about 40 per cent...
...industry profits leaped 70 per cent over the previous year, provoking a tremendous public outcry and numerous congressional investigations. Yet Congress took no serious action to prevent this from happening again once the furor faded. This year the percentage rises in profit have been up to three times as high. If the government cannot establish an "all-American" oil company now, it will lose the opportunity forever--the chance to join the rest of the Western, capitalist, industrialized world in fielding a state-owned competitor...
...number of meals served in a week dropped from 90,000 to tewer than 82,300 an 8.6 per cent decrease in meals that cost the University about $1 a piece. Walcott said. "It seems to indicate people were getting free meals before," he added...