Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The message about the dangers of illegal-drug abuse seems to be getting through, at least to some teenagers. Cocaine use is down among high school students, according to a survey of some 16,000 seniors by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. There was a drop from 6.2% to...
Reports that greed is dead are greatly exaggerated, according to a nationwide survey of college freshmen. Seventy-six percent of 210,000 students declared that being financially well off is an "essential" or "very important goal" in their lives. Just 39% placed a premium on creating a "meaningful philosophy of...
For by almost every reckoning, the state, if not quite Wonder bread, is at least whole wheat: overwhelmingly white and largely Protestant and middle class. Only about 2% of Iowa's 2.8 million people are black or Hispanic. The state's proportion of foreign-born residents is equally minuscule. At...
Overkill is as unavailing as timidity. The 1987 booby prize in the proportion category goes to the Boston Herald. In covering Dukakis' belated admission that his aides had leaked the anti-Biden tapes, the tabloid devoted 18 articles to the subject, consuming all the news space in the first eleven...
The exodus will accelerate as companies realize they cannot resupply their work force with the products of city schools. While corporations are demanding more literate, computer-sophisticated workers, New York's 940,000 public school students are afflicted by a one-third dropout rate. The blue-ribbon Commission on the...