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...from a 42-gallon bbl. of crude. That's good, but not good enough, especially not after Katrina knocked out 10% of U.S. refining capacity. Sixty-seven percent of America's oil demand comes from its transportation sector and even before the storm hit, the U.S. was importing about one-tenth of its refined petroleum needs. With no clear indication of when America may return to full refining capacity, and with no extra refining capacity anywhere else in the world, the U.S. thirst for oil products has created a new global petroleum crunch. Already spare European supplies have been sent...
Band members solicited donations in House dining halls, requesting that each student contribute two dimes to the cause. In just one night, organizers collected 1,115 dimes—one-tenth of the total sum needed. In addition to 10-cent contributions, some students pledged to recruit the help of cow-farming relatives in Texas in order to get a hide large enough for the new drum...
Accordingly, for the past three and a half years, I have on some few occasions considered my time in Boston as a form of exile. It’s like “diet city”— one-tenth the population and half the dining options. But when the craving for the deep-fried, chocolate-covered, cherry-on-top real thing hits, Amtrak gets me there in four hours...
Indeed, despite clear advances, statistics compiled by the U.N. show that women still shoulder more of the world's responsibilities but enjoy fewer of its benefits. Women perform two-thirds of the world's work but earn only one-tenth of its income and own only a hundredth of its property. They make up a third of the globe's official work force but are paid less than three-quarters of the wages men earn for similar jobs. Since few husbands do their share of the world's child-care and domestic work, women who are employed outside the home...
After Gillian Apps trimmed the lead to 2-1 with a breakaway goal with one-tenth of a second left in the middle frame, St. Lawrence reeled off three straight man-advantage tallies to bury Dartmouth in the closing 20 minutes...