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...asking students to sign, Davis had said the council constitution permitted a referendum for any petition with the signatures of one-tenth of the student body--or 663 undergraduates...
...Swatchmobile to be 20% smaller than a typical subcompact, able to wheel into a parking space sideways, cost about $10,000 and reach 90 miles an hour. The car's designers hope it will travel at least 80 miles on a gallon of fuel, thanks to an engine one-tenth the weight of any existing engine with equal power. Models will run on gasoline, electric power or a combination of both...
...then came the killer blow! If only I could persuade my friends to develop the same habit, I could earn one-tenth of a free trip to Menominee. If only, in short, I could turn my friends into addicts as demented as myself, I could empirically prove that there is such a thing as a free lunch. Nowadays I hardly ever think about the credit I could get by attending Frequent Flyer support groups around the globe -- or the five miles I could earn by transmitting this article to the office on my modem. Mostly I'm to be found...
...those who fancy themselves budding youngwriters, buy six of the pens that Hillary RodhamClinton uses: the Parker blue marble duofoldrollerball, at the Coop. For comparison, $1,000buys only one-tenth of the official pen of theWhite House, the solid 18K gold "Presidential"fountain...
MOSCOW: Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, claiming that 40% of crimes in the capital are committed by people from former Soviet republics, ordered them to register with the police and pay a daily levy of 800 rubles, about 66 U.S. cents but equal to one-tenth of the Russian minimum monthly wage. Those who fail to register and pay will be fined as much as 500,000 rubles and deported. A widespread animosity was displayed by many Muscovites. "Those buggers are so packed with dough that these fines won't stop them," said one local worker...