Word: one-tenth
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...Diana lighters and extinguish butts in C & D ash trays. Tea drinkers can sip from a C & D mug, pour cream from a C & D jug, add sugar with a keepsake teaspoon. Di fans can purchase a copy of her famous décolleté dress for $150-one-tenth the price of the original-and store it on a Lady Di hanger. For fun, there is a crossword puzzle with answers that form a princely head. For salvation, there is a Bible, bound in silver imitation leather, and featuring, yes, those innocent, royal faces...
...corporations pay for many of the social services we expect (or used to expect) from our government. He cites a study from the notorious radicals at the Congressional Budget Office to show that "each reduction in federal spending by $10 billion would reduce the rate of inflation by just one-tenth of one per cent...
...Zimic engaged in one of the most exciting races of the day, matching Princeton's Karen Weisel stroke for stroke and then pulling out a win by less than one-tenth of a second. Zimic's other victory of the day came in the grueling 400 IM which she dominated so completely that the second-place finisher was almost an entire pool length behind...
...said to be just as durable as an ordinary pine box. With its outer finish of imitation oak or walnut, it even resembles a wooden casket. Promoters point out that the cardboard model can be shipped flat to reduce transportation costs, conserves scarce natural resources, costs only one-tenth as much as a traditional casket and will start to decompose in about three years...
...services during freshman week), Room 13, and an "Efficacy Seminar" on minority students. In addition, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) receives several thousand dollars annually from a $5 charge on all women's term bills, dispersing, on the average, grants of $400 to $500--but only to about one-tenth of student groups. The assembly itself has had difficulty raising money; its total reserves are now less than $200, which is not enough to pay for a comprehensive poll or any campus-wide social event...