Word: proportionate
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There are countless statistics which convey the large proportion of humanity that lives in an extreme poverty that will never touch Harvard’s halls. Statistics, however, remove poverty from the conceptual argument. For example, readers of this very page generally view the illiteracy that is characterstic of extreme...
Jennings is a spruce, fit, deeply ideological 42-year-old who wants government to spend money to combat anti-gay bias in schools. He often asserts that "4 out of 5" students have been harassed because of their sexual orientation. (He doesn't mention that GLSEN's last big survey...
As for the results in specific departments, the percentage of A-range grades in the humanities went down most significantly, from 56.2 percent to 45.5 percent. A-range grades in the social sciences were cut from 42.5 percent to 38.4 percent. In engineering, A’s accounted for 36.4...
An increased proportion of the approximately 82,000 donors who contributed to Harvard last year are not alumni of the University, Rapier said, adding that non-alumni are coming into increasing focus at her office.
Another surprise: about 11% of girls 15 to 19 say they have had at least one same-sex encounter--the same percentage that was found in women 18 to 44. (The biggest proportion, 14%, was among women 18 to 29.) You would expect the numbers to rise steadily, if slowly...