Word: proportionate
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This aspect of the evaluation process could perhaps stand to be reformed. If students were required to include their ID numbers along with their evaluations, it would be possible to match their comments to the grades they received, thus indicating what proportion of the popular courses, professors and TFs are...
As a result, the current recipients of Medicare receive compensation far out of proportion to their initial contribution prior to retirement. Given this fact, the contention that somehow Medicare recipients deserve heavily subsidized health insurance due to their prior contributions to the Medicare fund is absurd.
Yet not only does the budget deficit drive down investment, it also creates a trade deficit. Since the budget deficit in recent years has been so large, it has routinely eaten up an enormous proportion of domestic savings. The savings left over generally cannot meet the demands for domestic investment...
Given that few smokers develop the habit in college, the nationwide trend of increased smoking should be exhibited at Harvard by a higher proportion of younger smokers. The fact that the opposite is true at Harvard--that smoking prevalence is higher among older students (i.e. juniors and seniors)--suggests that...
But on the national level, more teenagers are smoking. A 1994 California study found that while the percentage of adults who smoke regularly dropped from 26.5 percent to 15.5 percent from 1992 to 1995, the percentage of teenagers who regularly smoke rose 2.3 percentage points to 10.9 percent over that...