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Officials of "A Program for Harvard College" were confident that the additional $500,000 needed for the completion of the financing would soon follow the million-dollar gift. It is known that Radcliffe will contribute one-tenth of the total cost, or approximately $150,000. This would leave a sum of $350,000 still to come from the "Program...
...only from cobalt 60. This was odd, they thought; cobalt 60 is not a fission product, and it had not been found in other radioactive material, even in samples from much closer to Ground Zero. To make doubly sure. Weiss and Shipman ran a careful analysis. One clam proved to contain one-tenth of a microcurie of cobalt 60; the other had one-third of a microcurie...
...winning bonds have not been worth much and are traded at discounts down to one-tenth of their original value. For most workers the annual long-term investment in the fluctuating Soviet economic structure has been equivalent to a euphemistic tax measure...
...when NSSFNS (pronounced "./Ves-jfeness") began ferreting out hidden talents such as LaMar's, Negroes accounted for only one-tenth of 1% of the students in interracial colleges. To three prominent New Yorkers-Dean Harry Carman of Columbia College, Mrs. Felice Schwartz, and Pastor James H. Robinson of the Church of the Master-this seemed not only an injustice but a waste of brainpower. Though too many boys and girls of all races were missing their chance for a full education because of poverty or bad training, the largest group affected was the Negroes. Deciding to go to the rescue...
...inflated statistics of almost all market averages. On Dec. 31, for instance, Standard & Poor's daily industrial index closed at 498.9 and the Dow-Jones industrial average at 499.47, yet the New York Stock Exchange reported that the average value of one share of stock on that date was only $49.12, or about one-tenth as much...