Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring morning, dozens of Europeans and Asians line up for excursions through Harlem, which sprawls northward from the top of Central Park for about 50 blocks. They gasp at the area's high and low life and attend a joyful church service. Typically, few of the tourists are black; fewer are New Yorkers. On a recent trip, one of these few spoke with a librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and was complimented on his good English. When the downtowner asked if many New Yorkers took such tours, the librarian smiled: "Honey, you're about...
...Fewer and fewer women are concentrating in the Government Department: though women comprise 41 percent of the student body they comprise only 27 percent of the Government Department concentrators this year, as compared to 33 percent in 1982. According to the report, women government concentrators are more likely than men in the field or women in other departments to: 1) feel uncomfortable in class 2) see sexism as a problem in the department and 3) think that they must fight to talk in class. the report found that many women opt not to major in government because of the competitive...
...fewer women majoring in government as undergraduates, the fewer pursuing graduate degrees in the department. The fewer female graduate students, the fewer female professors. The fewer female role models on all of these advanced levels, the fewer female undergraduates. And the vicious circle continues...
...clear-cut distinction during the past 16 months. I don't have to emphasize the damage to the image of Israel, the massive involvement even of the Israeli Arabs. We know that the leaders who are creating this environment of terror are living and acting in Jerusalem. It's fewer than 50 people. If I add all the others around them, maybe 150 people. If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would be tolerated? It would not, because in the name of democracy, to preserve democracy...
...February 24, 1989, fewer than 50 students chose to attend a peaceful pro-divestment rally in the Yard...