Word: percents
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...House rejected a proposal that day by Speaker George Keverian '53 for a 50 percent increase in the capital gains tax, even after the speaker agreed not to make the increase retroactive for this fiscal year. After the 94-64 defeat, Keverian (D-Everett) retracted his $1 billion tax package from the floor...
...ordered choice proposal would be caving in. Most people, including Katz it seems, don't fully understand what non-ordered choice would mean for them. If we had non-ordered choice with three choices, the only difference between it and the present system would be that around percent fewer of the students would get their first choice (33 percent instead of near 50 percent) and 20 percent more of the students would get their third choice (33 percent instead of around 10 percent). Also, non-ordered choice has an added benefit in that around one third of the people...
What the UC can do, though, is try to convince the house masters to make a smaller change. I think that non-ordered choice would be preferable to what seems to be the main alternative, 100 percent randomization. Many of the house masters have said that they are interested in finding an agreeable middle ground. The way for the UC to do that is to endorse a consensus proposal and call for the house masters to choose it instead of 100 percent randomization. James M. Harmon...
...first half, Harvard shot a dismal 25.6 percent from the field, while the Cornhuskers hit 52.8 of their shots. Despite the presence of King, Harvard was able to grab 27 first-half rebounds...
...Massachusetts House handed Speaker George Keverian '53 a personal defeat yesterday and struck a potentially fatal blow to a deficit-reducing tax package by voting against a 50 percent increase in the capital gains...