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...Israel proper. Israeli budget allocations, however, have never fully acknowledged their existence. As the Jerusalem Post reports, more than half of Arab families in Israel live below the poverty line. Even so, the Israeli government regularly provides Arab towns and villages with as little as one-third of the regular budget allocations and one-tenth of the development funding provided for equivalent Jewish municipalities...
...election system, people with more moneyand more resources can reach more voters," hesays. Under PR, though, "you've got a citycouncillor who can get elected with one-tenth ofthe vote. It doesn't matter if that one-tenthcomes from every household or from one-tenth ofthe city...
Besides, I hate the Chicago Cubs. I hate the San Francisco Giants, the Oakland Athletics, and the New York Mets. As for Will Clark, maybe, with a little honest hard work, he could be one-tenth of the player and human being that Don Mattingly is. I also think Phil Rizzuto can announce rings around Vin Scully. Well, at least he's colorful...
...extensive network of environmentalists, like those who monitor policies in the U.S. and Western Europe. The government's foreign aid programs, which can have a major effect on the global environment, are administered by roughly the same number of people who ran them when they were giving out one-tenth as much money...
Solar Max has undermined those arguments. A sensitive radiometer aboard the satellite has confirmed that between 1980 and 1986 average solar output declined one-tenth of 1%, then leveled off, and now has begun to climb. The finding strongly suggests that solar radiation varies with the sunspot cycle and that the solar constant is not that constant after...