Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always, darkens the horizon, and the future looks worse, not better. "We assumed that if we worked hard to save money for four or five years we could begin to recover with the help of the national economy," Kaufmann says. "But here we sit looking at a 13 per cent inflation rate." He compares his position to a doctor who keeps running tests on a sick patient to discover what's wrong, and each new test fails to work, until he begins to run out of tests altogether...
White, challenged by three other candidates, nevertheless pulled in 42 per cent of the vote, a lead he should have little problem parlaying into a fourth term as the city's chief executive in the final election...
...last three years black pupils in South Boston high school have received leaflets printed with Nazi insignia, racial slurs and exhortations to leave the school, as they entered for the first time each fall. Last spring Madison Park High School evacuated its students, who are 40 per cent white and 60 per cent black, when fighting broke out at midday...
Harvard's definition of overcrowding is "having one more student than the number of rooms in a suite," she said, adding that last year about 50 per cent of freshmen living on campus were overcrowded...
Spence said that 92 per cent of upperclassmen usually live in the houses each year. That figure has not changed this year despite the slight increase in the size of the Class of 1981 to the Class of 1982, she said, adding that there is no significant increase in the crowding situation at the Houses...