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...that the Harvard heavyweight crew lost its first race in 25 tries, by one-tenth of a second, to Penn...
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates, a 6% increase in steel-mill products drives up the Wholesale Price Index in the following month by only one-tenth of a percentage point. Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, believes increases in the wages of public employees, energy prices, "maybe even the Russian wheat sale" are more inflationary than steel boosts...
...example, burns 1,000 times faster and survives only 100 million years. The sun, which is some 5 billion years old, is only at the mid-point in life. Smaller stars, on the other hand, are the Methuselahs of the celestial community. A star with one-tenth the mass of the sun can burn for a trillion years...
...Aztecs, McNeill notes, were on the verge of ousting Cortes from Mexico when an outbreak of smallpox blunted their assault. The disease spared the Spanish, who had already developed some immunity, but so devastated the Indians that even 50 years later the population of central Mexico was only one-tenth what it had been before Cortes landed...
Only about one-tenth of the American voters will have seen Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter in the flesh when the polls open. In most minds, the two men are special creations from the flickering, two-dimensional electronic screen and the printed page. They are light and shadow, fragments of sound...