Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty made both tests more difficult this year, and as a result more than 300 people failed the computer test, up from fewer than 100 last year, according to QRR officials. But they stress that the harder tests are not the answer...
...Afro-American Studies Department is more of a skeleton than anything else," says Henry, an English and American Literature concentrator who says he has not taken any Afro-Am courses. "The Afro-American Studies Department has fewer faculty members now that when it was first created. It has fewer course offerings than it did 20 years...
...gains would grow fewer as the semester proceeded. Many projects either proved too ambitious to finish before year end, or fell victim to the paralysis of the April controversies...
...public interest will increasingly be served as the country becomes more minority in population, in education and in employment, by those who are sensitive and experienced in dealing with a variety of issues involving the role of minorities in virtually every phase of American life. How can Harvard, with fewer representatives of minorities than other institutions, continue to exercise its influence in public affairs given this future configuration of society...
...recent eleven- month experiment in Philadelphia, police were put on a revised rotation that meshed better with their innate clocks. The number of days worked consecutively was cut, and the officers were not moved from one shift to another as frequently. Police on the new schedule had 40% fewer patrol-car accidents than before, and their use of sleeping pills and alcohol dropped by half...