Word: proportionate
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Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol, a member of the Faculty Council, says Harvard's deficit is smaller in proportion to its overall budget than Yale's.
This wasn't just any car she fell for but a warm, chauffeur-driven cocoon of transit dispatched by Zuckerman to meet her as she returned to La Guardia Airport late one night from yet another fund-raising trip, so exhausted that the auto's "sheltering presence loomed out of...
The President is right. Despite the $66 billion trade deficit, U.S. exports have been growing, in constant dollars, as a proportion of the gross national product. Says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International: "A country that exports 15% of its GNP cannot turn its back on the world...
As for the high proportion of black families headed by single women (44%, compared with 13% for whites): many deep sociohistoric reasons could be adduced, but none of them is welfare. A number of respected studies refute the Reagan-era myth that a few hundred a month in welfare payments...
By that definition, few would deny that Harvard has achieved a fair amount of diversity. More than 35 percent of the class of 1995 belongs to a racial minority group--a number far higher than the proportion of racial minorities in the American population. And the numbers keep getting bigger...