Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college vote showed 464 favoring and 105 opposing membership in the NSA. Fifty-five percent of the Annex participated in the balloting...
...that the Defense Department considered the Guard an inadequate fighting force, since eighty percent of it had had no prior military training...
Congressional legislation, enforced by the Federal Communications Commission, to make major networks grant all parties polling ten percent of the vote in the previous Presidential election equal and adequate free air time during the campaign would help alleviate the obvious discrepancies between the two parties' public relations activities. There is in this plan no attempt to lessen the potential of the mass media for good or evil. There is, however, the hope that by partially equalizing the air time utilized during a campaign, no party will be able to saturate the public mind with its "line...
...Here one finds a close correspondence between environment and juvenile crime. For if the area is a leader in delinquency, it is also a leader in housing problems. It contains only 11% of the city's dwelling units, yet it claims 23% of the city's dilapidated homes. Fifty percent of its houses have no central heating system...
Lawrence G. Dethick, U.S. Commissioner of Education, said that the current number of 2,947,000 students is ten percent above last year's previous high. He reported especially large enrollment gains by teachers colleges and technological schools, and a much smaller increase in theological schools enrollments...