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When books written by people from your ethnic group, gender, or sexual orientation are one-tenth of the curriculum in a class, it’s not easy...
...city. Instead, all candidates are pitted against each other on a citywide ballot. Rather than casting a single vote, Cambridge voters rank their top nine choices, and a candidate wins a seat on the council when he or she receives “quota,” defined as one-tenth of the votes cast plus one extra vote. The system is problematic because it allowed the defeat this spring of MIT alum and students’ rights activist Matt S. DeBergalis—despite the fact that he received more first-place votes than two of the re-elected...
...even if the government opened the gates to reimportation, that alone might not have much of an effect on drug prices. With only about one-tenth of the U.S.'s 300 million population, Canada's market is much too small to support the demand from the U.S. Canadian Internet pharmacies posted sales of $1 billion in 2003, compared with the $200 billion market in the U.S. "It's too much volume for us to sustain," says David MacKay, executive director of the Canadian International Pharmacy Association...
...When all is said and done, Dylan will probably have cost the UC less than $10,000, which is less than one-tenth of our Committee Fund,” said Mahan...
...Lausanne, Switzerland. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in a case brought by South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young, decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal from the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to win him the gold...