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Bossert said it is "unfortunate" that students copied one another's work especially since the seven homework assignments count for only one-fourth of the final grade...
Prolonged fighting would open truly frightening possibilities. Iran has threatened that it might block the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes 40% of the oil purchased by the non-Communist world and one-fourth of U.S. oil imports. That would cause economic chaos in the West, and Carter said last week that the U.S. was determined to keep the strait open, implying that it might organize an international fleet to do so. The Soviet news agency TASS thundered that "the U.S.A. is speeding up preparations for armed interference in the Persian Gulf area" and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie warned...
...paid by the elderly and the poor who lived too far from their jobs to walk and could not afford cabs. Anna Mack, 53, drove to her job as a cleaning woman in Rockefeller Center and had to pay parking fees of $8.50 a night, equal to about one-fourth of her take-home pay. A quarter of the city's garment workers, most of them non white and poor, could not get to their jobs...
...Great Depression beginning in 1929 was capitalism's harshest test. One-fourth of the U.S. labor force was unemployed, national output fell by half, and some 11,000 banks closed their doors. Capitalism was in large part saved by the innovative theories of British Economist John Maynard Keynes, who advocated temporary enormous government spending to get national economies growing again. Vast wartime expenditures in the early 1940s finally accomplished that...
Walker's finding indicates that Charon is almost half as large as Pluto, an unusual proportion for a satellite and a planet in the solar system, Brian G. Marsden, lecturer in Astronomy, said yesterday. The Earth's moon is one-fourth the size of the Earth, Marsden added...