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Proportional representation was heralded in the forties as an effective means of ensuring minority representation with majority control. Any group of voters that numbers more than one-tenth of the population can be sure of electing at least one member of a nine-man council, but a majority group of voters can be sure of electing a majority of the council...
...cities the lines start forming shortly after 3 a.m. Even the most polite are inclined to forget themselves as they fight for one of Japan's scarcest commodities: space on the golf course. So popular has the game become that it is regularly played by an estimated one-tenth of Japan's 108 million people, ranging from the Prime Minister to Zen monks. So many gorufu courses are being built that some environmentalists are complaining about a new kind of pollution: golf pollution...
...Those often traumatic trials, like the Gainesville case, were the result of a controversial Justice Department practice of prosecuting antiwar, anti-Administration activists for allegedly illegal plots. The prosecutions have involved at least 100 investigations in 36 states that have returned more than 400 indictments, but led to only one-tenth as many convictions, many on lesser charges...
...binocular microscope and a tiny beam of normal white light. After zeroing in on the target growth, the surgeon then steps on a foot pedal that opens a shutter on the laser and allows the infra-red laser beam to strike the diseased tissue for as little as one-tenth or as much as one-half of a second. In several "shots," the powerful laser beam literally vaporizes the tissue on which it is focused, at the same time cauterizing nearby blood vessels so that there is no bleeding. It is so accurate that healthy neighboring tissue is not damaged...
...plan would take away much of the legislature's power to tax. The personal income tax rate would be set at a probable maximum of 8.75%-the average rate that people in the state now pay. Then there would be a rollback: Each year the rate would drop one-tenth of 1% until a ceiling of 7.5% was reached in 1989. That ceiling could be raised only by a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature, with the concurrence of the Governor and the approval of the voters at the next election. Reagan estimates that if income...