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Luck also helped the Crimson in the 600-yard run. Although Peters won, Martin and Gary Schmidt of Harvard tied for second only one-tenth of a second behind. It was finishes such as that of the 600-yard event which caused McCurday to remark, "whenever points were in doubt, they went...
...CREATING DEMOCRACY ON THE CONTINENT: If you buy coffee for a given price and the following year you pay one-tenth of the price, and at the same time you double the price of the goods you are selling back, you are creating conditions of poverty and tension that do not lead to democracy. For example, Venezuela has always supplied oil to the U.S. When the [1973 Arab oil] embargo took place, Venezuela not only declined to join it but also increased her production to meet the needs of the American market. Nevertheless, a discriminatory trade law against OPEC members...
...Fund supplies about one-tenth of the Faculty's unrestricted income each year...
...conversation he had recently with a certain state college official. This particular college, it seems, had just cut enrollment in its enormously bloated English Ph.D. program to 300 students. "That's really downright immoral," Buckley told the official. "What, cutting back?" the official asked. "No," said Buckley, "admitting one-tenth that many...
...unschooled in such important crop-producing techniques as soil conservation, herbicide use and pest control-a legacy of the decades during which the head of a collective farm was most often not its best manager but its most politically reliable Communist. As a result, a Soviet farmer produces only one-tenth as much grain as his U.S. counterpart. Reports a member of a U.S. Agriculture Department team that studied Soviet farms last month: "The managing staffs of the large farms are being upgraded, but still, compared with the good top farmers in the West, they just don't have...