Word: percents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...removed Foley because "he had made no significant contribution to society." Needless to say, this enraged wrestlemaniacs the world over, and thousands of angry e-mails flooded in from all over the country. "Time SUCKS!, Foley ROCKS!" and similar messages dominated our mailboxes for weeks. The fact that 99 percent of his votes were generated by a vote-casting robot in a short 12-hour span was lost on the fans, and we had to just batten the hatches, respond as best we could, and weather the storm...
When first administered in April of that year, only 41 percent of test-takers passed, igniting debate throughout the Commonwealth...
...natural sciences only 11 of 162 tenured faculty members, or 6.8 percent, are women...
...thought of giving birth is daunting enough without the prospect of major surgery. Well, expectant moms can take heart in recent research pointing toward an overall decline in use of the dreaded C-section. A federal study released Thursday found that the percent of C-sections fell from 22.8 percent in 1989 to 20.7 percent in 1996. That drop followed national concern that too many caesareans were being performed, especially for mothers giving birth again after an earlier C-section. However, there was a slight increase in the procedure in 1997 following research that found a risk to mothers delivering...
...useful as previously thought in preventing certain forms of birth injury. The study cited in the Journal focused on the C-section's ability to prevent brain hemorrhaging during birth, sometimes caused when a baby is stuck in the mother's pelvis. While caesareans, which peaked at nearly 25 percent of births in the late '80s, were long held to be the best method for preventing such complications, the new research indicates that the procedure is no safer than nonsurgical alternatives, including the use of forceps or suction...