Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gordon McKay, protagonist of McKay's Bees, is a familiar name in Harvard science departments. About 50 scientists, including almost the whole faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department, owe their livelihood to his very large endowment. McMahon, one of the flock, pays tribute with his novel--"90 per cent of the book is lies about Gordon McKay," he says, though the last chapter, in which McKay returns to Cambridge, makes a fortune in shoe manufacturing, and befriends several Harvard faculty members, is "mostly true...
...family, black not Italian, he says and trace it back to Africa. Make sure it's your history recalled by your grandmother and no one will know the difference because you are its living witness. Handlin says Haley really added yeast to his story when he devoted "85 per cent of his attention to the period before the Civil War, the time least subject to reader verification, the time most readily freighted with nostalgia and fantasy for their benefit...
...survey said 46 per cent of those interviewed said they disapprove of Carter's handling of the Soviet brigade matter, versus 34 per cent who approved. Twenty per cent were not sure...
...also called for an improvement in teaching. "We must put more emphasis on the quality of teaching. It is difficult to choose these teachers. We try to appoint people who are excellent teachers as well as excellent scholars. Over 70 per cent of teachers given tenure at Harvard come from other universities," Bok said...
Twenty per cent of Coop shoplifters are Harvard students, according to detailed Coop records. A security agent at the Coop said yesterday that 22 of last month's 90 arrests for shoplifting at the store were Harvard students...