Word: percents
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While Cook says that fundraising will be one of his priorities, he emphasizes that he he has no immediate plans to initiate a fund drive. The arboretum currently has an annual operating budget of $2.8 million--70 percent of which comes from its endowment--and depends for the remainder upon both public and private grants, income from education programs, membership fees and donations and revenues from the arboretum shop...
...matter that students before him had contributed directly to his education by donating to the academic and extracurricular programs in which he participated, (to say nothing of the facilities he used or the faculty members who instructed him.) It did not matter that roughly 70 percent of all Harvard and Radcliffe students might not have been able to attend this University without this generosity of alumni and alumnae and those soon...
...suffers from some unfortunate misconceptions. First, the endowment of the University is not "mostly restricted"; its principal cannot be touched under any circumstances. The interest generated by it accounts for only 20 percent of the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Fortunately, Harvard places a higher priority on subsidizing the education of the student who cannot afford to attend this University or any other than on cleaning Mr. Yoo's "stinking bathroom." Like the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund, we agree that the familiar Marxist-Leninist maxim, "...each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," applies quite...
...point, Mr. Yoo is quite correct. The university is hoping to instill the habit of giving in all of us. Because government grants, tuition and the endowment do not cover fully the costs incurred by the FAS, philanthropy must cover roughly 20 percent...
Fifty-two percent of women non-Government social science concentrators said that they considered concentrating in Government. When asked why they ultimately chose another concentration these women cited, in descending order of frequency, concerns about the competitive nature of Government concentrators', problems with introductory courses and tutorials and problems with the structure of requirements...