Word: proportionate
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The easy availability of guns may be a necessary component of the Littleton phenomenon, but it's not a sufficient explanation. After all, firearms have been widely available for decades, but random mass shootings by high schoolers are a comparatively recent phenomenon. And in a country such as Israel, where...
Thompson says the proportion of members of underrepresented minority groups would likely rise if some of these Faculty members were to retire.
In his letter to the Faculty, Knowles also links the lack of turnover to an overall rise in the proportion of tenured Faculty members to their non-tenured colleagues.
Student activists and artists, many gay and lesbian, made up a large proportion of the House's student population, Kiely says. That annoyed some.
"Even if Starr comes across as a most genial and reasonable guy," says Novak, "it will be too little and too late to appease his many critics." To his opponents, his work exemplifies the problem of an out-of-proportion, if not out-of-control, probe. "Many on the Hill...