Word: proportionately
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The American population in recent presidential elections has divided within a few percentage points of a 50-50 split between Democrats and Republicans. In a population thus equally divided, the probability of drawing 33 Democrats and no Republicans by chance is less than one in 8 billion. The Crimson surely...
While Moscow is in no imminent danger of losing control over its non-Russian & nationalities, the problem is likely to become more critical in the future. Today ethnic Russians constitute about 51% of the Soviet Union's 285 million population. That proportion will shrink to 48% by the year 2000...
Lee's use of humor may have blown the reality of both viewpoints out of proportion, but he did drive his point home. Time and time again darker women have been pushed aside as the myth of lighter-equals-better gets played out. Even in the movie, the dark-skinned...
WHEN Lee strayed from the issues of unity and education and attempted to depict campus social life, he blew reality entirely out of proportion.
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence has been attempting to address the problem of junior faculty advancement as a whole for almost two years. (His plan would gradually increase the proportion of professors promoted from within Harvard's own ranks). But Spence has neglected to focus on the even...