Word: percents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, HUDS' job openings list, mirroring state-wide trends, has grown by at least 50 percent in recent years...
...binge drinking. A little homework reveals how absurd that perception is. A 1998 study by Henry Wechsler, director of College Alcohol Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health, found binge drinking at MIT to be at about half the national average, at 23 percent. The study also found that about a third of MIT students do not drink, whereas only 19 percent abstain nationwide...
...shuttles to the Harvard-Yale game at Yale transport over 800 people back and forth from The Game. Is the staff calling the first-year formal a mediocre event? For the past four years, this event has averaged an attendance of 1,000 people--more than 60 percent of the first-year class each year...
...believes to be threats to Microsoft's power, including the Java programming language. In fact, Microsoft has worked against the Java initiative by producing their own "version" of Java which, while not fully compliant with the Sun standards, is needed to take full advantage of the Windows functions 85 percent of the world's PC users are targeted for. In addition, the condescending treatment of Microsoft's competitors, often beaten not through superior product but by exclusionary licensing techniques, reveals a lack of knowledge of how the workings of the computer industry functions. The writer assumes that companies survive entirely...
Although Harvard's shooting went from 38.5 percent before halftime to 29 percent after, the Crimson did improve its offensive output, scoring 34 points before the final buzzer...