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...large quake can be expected-but not for many months. If the dilatancy effects occur in a small area, the quake will be minor but will occur soon. The return to normal of the dilatancy effects provides the second warning. It indicates that the quake will occur in about one-tenth the time during which the changes were measured. If dilatancy changes have been recorded for 70 days and then suddenly return to normal, the quake should occur in about a week...
Charitable contributions are a small portion of an "enormous" number of expenses deducted from the Coop's net profit, and are only about one-tenth of one per cent of total expenses," he said...
Preliminary reports show that the Fund, which supplies the Faculty with about one-tenth of its unrestricted funds, may fail to top last year's figure of $4,802,000 by a few percentage points, and will almost definitely fail to reach its $5-million goal established last fall...
...Fund's projected total also fell short of earlier goals--ranging as high as $5.5 million in November--made by Dean Rosovsky's office. The Fund usually pays for about one-tenth of the Faculty's unrestricted income...
...Vries, editor of the Morgan Guaranty study, forecasts a 20% average annual rise by volume in imports by OPEC countries. But as the volume of imports grows, such a rate might well become increasingly difficult to sustain, especially for countries with primitive domestic economies. Armaments made up about one-tenth of imports last year. Shipments of war materiel cannot continue to increase -unless the selling nations are willing to take even graver risks that a conflagration will erupt in the Middle East...