Word: one-tenth
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...represent one-tenth of the people wherever they are," says Reeves...
...jobs report from the Labor Department showed unemployment up one-tenth of a point from September's 6.7 percent, the first increase since it hit a five-year peak of 7 percent in June...
...battle, with the Office of Management and Budget feuding with parts of the divided Department of Health and Human Services, and Congress feuding with the Administration. Even members of a White House-appointed study group on infant mortality, who last summer prepared a no-nonsense plan costing less than one-tenth of 1% of the $600 billion spent annually on health care in the U.S., sound apologetic about not attacking the problem full force. "One can say it's not enough or it's not fast enough, but no one is disagreeing with the direction we're heading," says...
...women, universally known as "females," who make up about one-tenth of the armed forces, are writing the rules as they go along. The Saudi government, rejecting the idea of female soldiers coming to their defense, designates them as males with female features. Some women are in traditional support roles as cooks, clerks and nurses. But they are also armorers, fire fighters, strategic planners and intelligence officers, serving close to the fire zone...
...around the world with devastating effects on agriculture. Nuclear blasts and volcanoes can send smoke exploding 16 km or more into the upper atmosphere, enabling it to travel long distances around the globe; but the worst oil-field inferno would probably lack the upward thrust to send smoke even one-tenth as high into the air before it started to cool and descend...