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...added that students in Lowell produced 97 pints of blood, or about one-tenth the total collection...
...women's race, the Big Green's Moira Teevans broke Crimson junior Jenny Stricker's course record by one-tenth of a second finishing the five-kilometer course...
More members of the class of 1984--about 60 percent--will move directly into a job after graduation than in any other class in the past quarter century, according to estimates by Harvard's Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL). One-third of the class of 1974 and only one-tenth of the class of 1959--the first year of the OCS-OCL survey--expressed such plans upon graduation...
...private sector that year took about $20,000. Those heading to government or public service were paid between $10,000 and $14,000, according to Martha P. Leape, director of OCS-OCL. That is why a third of the government, history, and social studies concentrators go into law, and one-tenth go into government. That is why a friend five years out of school just this fall took the LSATs, and why he urged me to do so now, because I would "end up taking them anyway...
...write," Buckley says, "for the simple reason that writing is extremely hard work, and I do not 'like' hard work." Rather he may write to escape boredom or serve his cause or maybe not. "It is easier to stay up late working for hours," Buckley reasons, "than to take one-tenth the time to inquire into the question whether the work is worth performing...