Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The CDC estimates that by 1991, as many as 10 million people in this country will be infected with the AIDS-causing Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) (also known until recently as HTLV-III and LAV). Researchers estimate a large proportion of them will develop the disease.
An unlikely, uneasy army of scientists, whale-hunting Eskimos, oil company officials and environmental activists mustered in frigid Point Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost point in the United States, to organize a $1 million rescue effort. Biologists nicknamed the trio of young whales Bonnet, Crossbeak and Bone. By week's end...
Create more community-based health clinics. The homeless crisis began when overcrowded mental hospitals started to release patients who were not considered dangerous to themselves or others. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions dropped from a peak of 560,000 to 143,000 today, and an estimated 30...
The leadership vacuum coincided with bitter ethnic tensions in the autonomous province of Kosovo. Though the province is part of the Serbian republic, Albanians account for at least 77% of its 1.9 million inhabitants, a proportion that continues to increase. Fears of Albanian irredentism and tales of rape and murder...
The point is, Hatcher says, that "Black companies" would be producing most of these controlled goods. However he adds that "white companies" would be allowed to participate if they engaged in fair hiring practices--employing a proportion of minority workers equal to the representation of minorities in the city in...