Word: one-twelfth
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...result would be that any candidate receiving more than one-twelfth of the total votes would be elected. In a contested election, a school would tend to be represented in proportion to the number of its students...
...near Mount Newman that assayed at almost the maximum possible purity. Australians had long known that iron ore could be mined in their country, but not until finds like Hilditch's did they suspect that it existed in such phenomenal abundance − an estimated 20 billion tons, about one-twelfth of the world's known reserves. Three years later, Australian legislators repealed a ban on iron-ore exports once enacted in the belief that there was only enough for domestic needs. Two big iron-ore mines opened up and, following the pattern of previous mineral exploitations, were dominated...
...services has risen an average 5% a year, to $72 billion in 1968, and is expected by the European Economic Commission to gain another 6% this year. It is true that Italy is growing fast partly because it has considerable catching up to do; Italy's economy remains one-twelfth as big as the U.S.'s economy and half the size of West Germany...
...Year's Day announcement of those figures with his stern prescription for lopping $3 billion off the deficit in 1968, the President managed to minimize the consequences. Despite the Treasury's subsequent disclosure that the U.S. lost nearly $1 billion of gold during November and December, one-twelfth of its dwindling hoard, the dollar rose strongly on the exchange markets of London, Paris and Frankfurt last week...
...called for more consumer goods. By 1970 they hope to double production of television sets, treble the production of refrigerators and quadruple the production of cars. Yet even if Soviet automakers reach the goal-some 800,000 units a year-output would still amount to little more than one-twelfth of the U.S. production...