Word: proportionment
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The Board of Trustees at Princeton have voted to replace all loan offerings to undergraduates with grants. Apart from the service academies, Princeton is possibly the first American university to guarantee that undergraduate financial aid recipients will not be required to borrow to help pay for college. Princeton took a...
While the same proportion of Harvard students abstained from drinking in high school as students nationally, only 23 percent of Harvard students say they typically binged when they drank in high school, while the national average is more than 27 percent.
[T]he system would not be designed to replace the maids now working for the University. Each year a certain proportion of the maids fail to return and the porter arrangement would "take up the slack" without displacing those maids who did return.
A separate report published in November in Lancet, the British medical journal, said that children are more at risk than adults to suffer "memory loss, sleeping disorder and headaches" from using mobile phones. About 10 million children in the U.S. from ages 10 to 19, or 25% of those in...
Most disturbing of all, as Ashcroft was gearing up a short-lived campaign for the White House last year, he verbally attacked Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White, an African American whom Bill Clinton has appointed to the federal bench, for supposedly being "pro-criminal" and soft on capital punishment...