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...rightfully insists that it works hard to provide cocaleros with alternative crops like bananas and coffee. But the depressed markets for those goods mean farmers earn sometimes as little as one-tenth of what they would with coca, which produces three to four harvests a year. Of course, coca farming is not--as Morales and the growers would have it--an entirely innocuous affair. Even though the cocaleros don't turn coca leaves into cocaine--that's done by the drug cartels--they know that the bulk of the crop goes not toward its traditional uses as an anesthetic...
...Palestinian street, the response was predictable outrage. Israeli sources estimate more than 100,000 people - one-tenth of the city's population - attended the funeral for Shehade and the other victims. And their demand was simple: revenge...
...technology - automobiles, radio, aviation, electronic utilities and appliances in the 1920s, and more recently, the Internet, chips, software, bandwidth and biotech. The small top tier of Americans with the large stockholdings are always lopsided beneficiaries, which increases the concentration of wealth and income in the top one percent (especially the top one-tenth of one percent). By 1928-29, the top one percent share of total U.S. wealth (some 40-44%) and income (some 17-19%) maximized at levels that were only reached again, roughly, in the last years of the 1990s...
...Cambridge’s unusual proportional representation voting system—which mandates that each candidate must receive only one-tenth of the “number one” votes in order to nab a seat on the city council—each city councillor has only a “narrow” political constituency to look out for, Healy says...
...Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships this past weekend in Camden, Radcliffe finished third in a time of 6:37.44, just over one-tenth of a second ahead of Mercyhurst. Princeton won in a time of 6:26.24, and Wisconsin came in second...