Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, despite his populist rhetoric, Carter seems to be doing his best to insure that the energy conglomerates will walk away with the windfall profits resulting from decontrol. First, his tax proposal, billed as a 50 per cent windfall profits tax would actually tax only 18 per cent of the added revenues that oil companies will rake in from early decontrol, according to The Wall Street Journal. But more seriously, Carter has not made decontrol contingent on the passage of any profits...
Surprisingly large numbers of students stayed away from classes Mondy; estimates of the no-shows ranged from 40 to 70 per cent. Those figures are tenuous, though, and include those who were simply unwilling to face picket lines or more interested in the 70-degree sun than in Chem...
...nuclear energy, Weicker reminded his audience that he is from a state in which 60 per cent of all power is nuclear power. "We just can't turn our backs on it, we have to move forward and master the risks," Weicker said...
...LEFT the Orson Welles, I had a rush of understanding. Australia is the most urbanized country in the world. Eighty per cent of its people live in its cities. Much as we Americans cling to a self-image of rugged individualism while going to work every day for IBM, Australians see themselves as tough rural types bonded by the 'mateship' of the bush. The reality is different. Huddled together in the cities, they turn their backs on the inhospitable and incorruptible land. The ones who choose to live in the wild become the crazies about whom the bush ballads...
...added that the stage reduces the size of the dining hall by 40 per cent or more...