Word: percent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to talk about the Negro in higher education," said Nabrit, "you've got to talk about the way the Negro has been passed up in higher education." He pointed out that while 11 percent of the population is Negro, less than five per cent of the people engaged in higher education are Negroes...
...seedy establishment, you will concede. Yeasts, soybean powders, raw sugars, dried fruits, honeys, extracts, gums; and syrups of all kinds will demand your attention. (On Cottage Grove Avenue near 63rd Street in Chicago, a "Hindu Incense" shop sells tonics of lion's blood and iron and 80 percent alcohol, powders to remove odors and demons, candles and incense and totems and icons...
Cyprus' political straitjacket has forced its economy, to remain largely as the British left it when they granted independence in 1960, after five years of gureilla struggle. Cyprus is a classic example of a colonial economy, exporting raw materials, mainly mineral ores, and importing manufactures. Forty-five percent of foreign trade is with the United Kingdom. Now the poilitical and economic tensions in Cyprus have brought that country to the verge of civil...
Since Cyprus must remain one nation and since any nation needs a government which can Function, the first move towards progress in Cyprus is to remove the Vice-President's veto. This would not be an intolerable demand to make of the Turkish faction. The Turkish community (18 percent of the population) would still retain the constitutionally guaranteed control of the Vice-Presidency, 30 percent of the Council of Ministers, 30 percent of the House of Representatives, 30 percent of the ponce force, and 40 percent of the army. More important, the Turkish Cypriotes would retain their own community government...
Attempting to promote sales of President Pusey's Age of the Scholar, the Harvard Cooperative Society advertises a "special fifteen percent patronage refund on cash purchases of this timely work...