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...written some riotous speeches here, the characters are gems, and now and then a line will be both starkly funny and horrible--as when the producer says to the Lord in mock prayer with the shivering contestant that maybe this poor, white-trash hick has only a 50-per-cent chance of survival and happiness, "but Lord, that 50 per cent chance is the best goddamned chance he's ever gonna get." But despite a superbly dark, sick ending the play is too predictably structured, the target too easy, and, compared with a truly political vaudeville like Dario...
More than 700 seniors participated in the election, a 45-per-cent turnout that is "close to the average of the last few years," Koivumaki said, adding that the increased votes for women corresponds to a larger number of women running for seats...
...Corporation decides to raise total costs at a rate higher than last year's 14.9-per-cent clip, the rate of increase would be the highest in decades and probably the highest in college history...
These changes "move the Stanford endowment to a very innovative limit," Rodney Adams, director of investment, said, adding that Stanford expects to increase the real return of its endowment by 1 per-cent...
...percentage of the original price. By the former and, incidentally, more common method, the change from 6 cents to 20 cents represents 233 per cent increase. However, by the latter method, which, by the way, is the one used (knowingly or not) when in the same sentence it is stated that an increase from 15 cents to 20 cents is one of 25 per cent, the change from 6 cents to 20 cents works out to be a 70-per-cent increase. That is a far cry from 333 per cent! Perhaps the Core Quantitative Reasoning Requirement should be stiffened...