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Word: percent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three formulae. To find the PRL, the derivatives from the three are weighted in one of two proportions, depending on whether the applicant comes from a public or private school. In the public school formula, the class ranking derivative is 47 per cent of the PRL, verbal aptitude 23 percent, and the average of achievement scores 30 per cent. For private school graduates it is 48 per cent, 20 per cent, and 32 per cent...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL--The Secret Summary of Every Harvard Man's Intellectual Status | 11/16/1964 | See Source »

...AFSC conceded in its statement that it spends 13 percent of its money "in talking about the ways to promote peaceful conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFSC Protests 'Politics' Charge | 11/7/1964 | See Source »

...candidacy of Henry Paolucci on the Conservative ticket. Keating's refusal to support Goldwater has assured Paloucci of two or three percent of the vote, and with things as close as they are, defections are costly...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: New York's Senator Kenneth Keating Embittered Incumbent Fights Back | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

While some sheiks haggle like bazaar veterans for the extra half-percent interest that is paid for whopping deposits (top: 7%), a few devout Moslems refuse to accept any interest at all on their oil millions. In Beirut's amazingly liquid and fast-moving money market, the bankers quickly pump their funds into short-term loans at up to 12%, finance everything from Pakistani exports and Saudi imports to local ski resorts and new cars. They seek to combine security with the plump profits of quick turnover, shun long-term credits or collateral-free personal loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Beirut: The Suez of Money | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...makings of a race as lopsided as Stuart Hughes's campaign against Ted Kennedy. Day has a magnetic manner and a good program of social reform working for him. The Ninth also holds more than half of the state's Negro population. But Negroes account for ony 12.8 percent of the District's voters. McCormack's is the most Irish of all American districts, with first or second generation immigrants alone accounting for 11.6 percent of the population. Well over 50 percent are descendents of the 19th century deluge...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: In the Land of the Scrod | 9/30/1964 | See Source »

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