Word: proportionment
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Some of the game's most celebrated coaches are split on the issue. Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United, told a fan magazine, "It's certainly not wrong that clubs should be seen to have a proportion of home-based players. You want to protect your own, and there...
And at least in some parts of the country, opinion is shifting in their favor. According to the National Health and Social Life Survey, the total proportion of U.S.-born males who were circumcised peaked in 1965 at about 85%, dropping to 77% in 1971, the last year of the...
Easier said than done. To get home after they leave the meeting, the afflicted must run Macau's gauntlet of gambling resorts, their mesmerizing neon and ritzy, come-hither ambiance carefully calculated to encourage a fling at the tables. Temptation seems to be everywhere. Since the city began issuing new...
Treatment programs can help. When computerized poker and slot machines were introduced to New Zealand in 1988, gaming operators provided funding for a national gambling hotline, counseling centers, public-awareness campaigns and research. As a result, gambling addiction rates fell from 7% in 1991 to 3% in 1999. Gambling "is...
Unsurprisingly, ethnic departments attracted—and continue to attract—a large proportion of heritage students. The popularity of heritage studies within ethnic disciplines is not only the result of historical precedent, however, but also owes much to personal inclinations. “Sometimes it’s...