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Nationalists in Guinea Bissau, also called Portuguese Guinea, now have control over three-fourths of the nation after ten years of fighting for independence. The United Nations General Assembly has recognized the independent Guinea Bissau nation, but Portugal continues to hang on to its one-fourth of Guinea Bissau. Exxon has a Portuguese oil exploration contract in Guinea Bissau...
...might be guilty of some slight bias, but his opinion is widely shared in financial circles. The oil shortage has made coal critically important as an alternative energy source, and most coal moves by rail. Shippers of other goods are beginning to realize that freight trains consume only about one-fourth as much energy per ton-mile as trucks do. And the Nixon Administration's newly proposed Transportation Improvement Act would protect railroads from discriminatory local taxation and make it easier for them to raise their rates-provisions that would dramatically improve the industry's profitability...
...September 3, 1973 almost two million Chileans, about one-fourth of the nation's population, marched in a giant revolutionary celebration through Santiago and waved at the modest looking man on the reviewing stand. One week later, he gave his life not because he was their patron but because he was their brother. It is not only that the United States may have been directly involved in the coup that concerns us. Chile matters to us primarily because a just revolution was ended and many good people were murdered. Even as we mourn their deaths, we draw renewed courage from...
DeFunis filed suit in the Washington Superior Court when he later discovered that over one-fourth of the admitted students had academic records below his, and that all of them were minority students whose applications were considered separately from the general applicant pool...
DeFunis subsequently discovered that his academic record was higher than over one-fourth of the admitted students. Of the 150 law students accepted, 44 were minority students and 38 of them had over-all records lower than DeFunis...