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China's numbers defy the imagination: one-fourth of the world's people inhabit a mere 7% of its land area, a country 76,400 sq. mi. larger than the U.S. Although no accurate census has been taken in 25 years, demographers think that sometime around the middle of 1978 the total population surpassed 1 billion. Approximately 85% of these people live in rural areas. Nonetheless, China still has 13 of the 50 most populous cities in the world. Metropolitan Shanghai, with an estimated 12 million inhabitants, has about half a million more people than Tokyo...
According to Morgenthau, only one-fourth of this sum has been raised...
With approximately one-fourth of the class casting ballots, freshmen voted 238 to 154 with 61 abstentions to send representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), making the Class of '82 the third freshman class in a row to break an eight-year boycott of the committee...
...Governor, Butcher resigned as chairman of the United American Bank of Knoxville, which is the largest bank in the chain. He owns one-fourth of the bank's stock. For the first six months of this year, U.A.B.'s earnings were down by 52%, but the bank nonetheless increased its dividend from 160 to 180 a share. Other bankers suggest that the move was chiefly intended to increase Butcher's income, but he says he had nothing to do with...
Wells Fargo currently loans one-fourth of one per cent of its portfolio to "entities" in South Africa the bank states are "essentially...trade related and finance the nation's international trade and the purchase of equipment from American suppliers...