Word: percent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basis of early data, that they had leveled off -an anti-inflation sign he publicly welcomed two weeks ago. Price rises were announced for shoes, sheet glass, fertilizers and, despite Administration efforts to avert it, most cigarettes (a penny more a pack). Most worrisome of all was a half-percent rise in the crucial consumer price index for February, caused largely by spiraling meat, milk, poultry and vegetable costs. It was the largest increase for any February since 1951, and it came after several other monthly rises and on the heels of an even greater spurt in the monthly wholesale...
...that attention to Merrick, entrepreneur, and not a mention of Harvey Sabinson and Lee Solters, his trusty publicists. Eighty percent of what comes out of Merrick's public mouth began in their heads. Even Merrick has been heard to say, "They are the greatest publicists in New York." Well he might. Without them he might be just another successful theatrical producer. (F.Y.I.: I do not work for the gentlemen in question...
Undoubtedly, the regime's reactions to domestic pressures and problems will be more immediate and direct than its response to developments outside China's borders. But China also does react to a changing world environment. Once seventy percent of its trade was with the Communist world; in 1965 about seventy percent of China's trade was with industrialized non-Communist countries. Japan has, I believe, replaced Russia as her leading trade partner. Not one of China's leading trade partners can be classed a strong ally, and ten of these are allies or close to the United States. The rigid...
Morrill speculated that students buying books may have to identify themselves and prove that they need the books for courses, in order to avoid the three percent tax. He wondered if a book sold at a college book store and "the local cigar store" would be exempt from taxation at both places...
...music is from 30 decibels to 100 decibels. On the next line he says Stokowski performed triple pianissimo at 20 decibels; was that not music? In Chapter 1, from concocted statistics about a "typical" musical score, he calculates the redundancy of certain aspects of musical notation to be 15 percent. In the rest of the book he refers to the great redundancy of the musical score in comparison with the slight redundancy, perhaps 20 percent, of musical performances. He should have rigged his example to support his later (equally unfounded) conclusions. There is a continuing confusion between physical frequency...