Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...percent of the Harvard Students interviewed, infrequently or never attended church during the school year...
Weeks suggested that his audience "bear in mind" that 62.6 percent of the funds requested are for defense purposes. "This is a tough world we live in," he said, "and, believe me, we're not going to save our free way of life without paying...
Khrushchev did not expect the West to believe that Soviet workers would gladly accept the loss of a theoretical 260 billion rubles on outstanding loans. Grunted Nikita: "Comrades, the capitalist-that shopkeeper who would slaughter his own father for a half-percent interest-will never believe that you consent to this of your own free will. He will read about it in the papers and say they have intimidated the workers and peasants." And in fact there were two reasons why the Soviet worker might not be wholly displeased with the state pig passed to him by Khrushchev...
...budget the President has submitted is geared to continuing prosperity at a rate six percent higher in this calendar year than in 1956," Byrd said. "His budget also takes into account a proposed 600-million-dollar increase in revenues through a boost in postal rates, which Congress might not approve...
...HELP loans are not of overly great use to Harvard undergraduates because of their four and one half percent interest, because they are limited to students living in Massachusetts, and because they are payable six months after graduation. Monro said that the HELP loans were much more useful at the graduate level than the undergraduate, since 70 percent of Harvard College graduates enter graduate work...