Word: one-fourth
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...peace and love in Gotham, however, even though this strike lasted only one-fourth as long the two previous modern strikes. Workers are still facing fines of $1,200 each-two days' pay for each for each of the three strike days. The union has been ordered to pay a separate $3 million fine. Toussaint is due in court to answer contempt charges, and could face jail time. And despite the thaw at the negotiating table, the governor and mayor have both said all penalties and fines should to be enforced...
...analysis by researchers at the University of California at San Diego found that magazines targeted at minorities, such as Ebony and Latina, had proportionally double the ads for junk food, cigarettes and alcohol and one-fourth as many health-promoting ads as mags like Good Housekeeping...
Francis, the late-night worker who rode the Night Owl, said that she remembered that ridership was comprised of “almost all young people” when she took it home from Jamaica Plain. She added that the whole bus was only about one-fourth full...
...turns out we are not alone. In a survey of 303 women taken before they went into labor and published in Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, one-fourth fully expected to have an epidural and an additional 40% thought one would be likely. About a third, however, wanted to avoid the epidural, and 7% said they would never have one under any circumstances. As it turned out, however, nearly 8 out of 10 women in this study ended up having an epidural, including nearly half the women who said they would never have one...
Since the 1980s, the proportion of women at these universities rose from one-fourth that of men to nearly one-half, according to the report...