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Word: percent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCLOSKEY'S proposals, contends the Wolff Committee, would not cost the University any extra money. A drop in enrollment, coupled with a rule forbidding both grants and teaching fellow positions, would provide extra funds and better means of distributing them. With a year by year twenty percent decrease in the size of classes, the committee argues that scholarship and could be extended progressively through the five-year period...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: The Graduate | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...electronics plant are donig impressive things for the ghetto. Freedom Industries employs about 160 members of the community at a minimum wage rate for unskilled labor of $2.00 an hour. (The supermarkets still charge competitive prices, even with this wage increase over Purity, because of a 25 percent increase in sales since the Freedom Foods opening...

Author: By Nancy C. Anderson, | Title: A New Power In Roxbury; The Ghetto Means Money | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

Again Harvard won the rebounding contest, 57-36, but was outshot, 42 percent to 38 per cent...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Penn, Princeton Cagers Hand Harvard New Losses | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...crops a year.* Following the disastrous 1965-67 drought, Indian farmers, with intensive field aid from the Ford Foundation, planted some 20 million acres of the new Mexican wheat. The results turned out to be astonishing: the 1968 wheat crop topped India's previous record harvest by 35 percent, or 4.3 million tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE HOPE OF CONQUERING HUNGER | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Kicking a Cat. One hopeful but skeptical Manhattan hallucinator recently submitted one of his trusted $5 caps of "THC" to Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., for chemical analysis. The disquieting, bad-trip report: it contained less than one-hundredth of one percent of THC (the rest was a common tranquilizer). In that low concentration, one cap would not be enough to give a mouse dreams of kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: The Trouble with THC | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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