Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Certainly you will find in the student body today much greater diversity than you would have found in 1964," Bok said. "A full 33 percent will come from Asian-American, Black and Hispanic ethnic minorities...
...spend and spend and spend for health care--$550 billion in 1988, comprising 11.5 percent of our GNP. Yet America's infant mortality rate ranks 18th among industrialized nations. The rate of Black infant mortality is twice that of whites and is comparable to rates in many Third World nations...
POLICYMAKERS are trying to counteract the health system's bias towards institutional care. President Bush recently proposed increasing Medicaid coverage to 130 percent of the poverty line for pregnant women and infants. And Representative Mickey Leland (D-Tx.) and Senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) have introduced legislation which would expand this ceiling to 185% of the poverty line...
...graphic film of bloody and blackened faces of victims flashed on the screen, the correspondent said many of the injured suffered second and third-degree burns, some over 80 percent of their bodies...
...HOLLIS has had a tremendous effect on us," says Heather E. Cole, head of Hilles and Lamont libraries. Circulation has increased 25 percent over last year, and she attributes the growth to HOLLIS's introduction...