Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps necessarily, a youthful pursuit; more than three-quarters of those arrested in 1976 were under 25. Between 1960 and 1976, the 14-to-20-year-old, or potentially criminal, population grew remarkably, accounting for a good part of the criminal juggernaut. Moreover, the '60s saw a 39 per cent increase in the ratio of youth to adult criminals, the first such rise in over 70 years. The socialization of the young, the internalization of societal norms, burdened with this "demographic overload," partially collapsed, resulting in more crime...
...youth or poverty, crime, and particularly violent crime, is perceived as a function of race. What most urban dwellers have intuited can be statistically shown--black people account for a disproportionate amount of violent street crime. Were it only a result of the crippling poverty that keeps 31 per cent of American blacks below the Federal subsistence level, crime statistics would correlate; yet, although in 1976 blacks accounted for 31 per cent of property crimes (such as burglary), they commited 60 per cent of the robberies, 40 per cent of the aggravated assaults, and about half of the murders...
...white South Africans complain about the apartheid laws, they can live with them--which is more than the blacks can do. In some areas, black infant mortality reaches 50 per cent...
...Middelburg, a small town outside Pretoria, two small boys run up to wash the windows of the car, hoping to get a few cents for their efforts. They wipe the window furiously with a cloth only slightly more ragged than their clothes; this five cents means a lot to them. Times are bad now for black South Africans. Unemployment has reached an all-time high, though no one has exact figures; and there is no minimum wage for most of the jobs blacks can do. 80 per cent of black South Africans fall below the poverty datum line, the absolute...
...junior faculty Harvard has tenured over the last century gauges as well as any figures the flooding of the academic market with well-trained scholars. Bruce Collier, special assistant to Dean Rosovsky, outlines the facts: In the early part of the century, Harvard granted tenure to over 50 per cent of its junior faculty. In the early 60s, about 20 per cent of the in-house faculty received tenure. Over the past five years, less than 6 per cent...