Word: proportionate
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P resident Neil L. Rudenstine writes in the President's Report that a healthy proportion of courses offered are international in scope.
Antismoking forces hope that new restrictions can counter some disturbing trends. After falling for decades, the percentage of Americans who smoke has leveled off at 25%, and the proportion of young people who pick up the habit is starting to rise again. An estimated 3,000 U.S. children begin smoking...
For many residents the new California dream is to flee the place. In a poll taken during the last week of January by the Field Institute in San Francisco, 26% of Southern Californians surveyed said they had considered moving away because of the quake, more than three times the proportion...
The president who also said that only about 20tenure-level positions in the Faculty of Arts andSciences are open each year, making it difficultto force dramatic changes in the proportion oftenure minority faculty.
In his previous study, Wechsler also found that while fewer women than men are heavy drinkers, the proportion of women who imbibe in order to get drunk is similar to that of men.