Word: rates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There will be no "bunching" in faculty retirements at any point during the coming decades. Instead, departures will increase at a steady rate...
...Even if the faculty retirement rate were cut in half--due to professors staying on past the customary departure age--demand for new faculty members to replace those leaving would only drop 2 percent...
Look at the issue again, in a subtler shade. Investigators from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights arrive for a compliance review of Harvard admissions with a specific directive to investigate possible discrimination against Asian-Americans. Harvard has justified the rate of Asian-American admissions--consistently 80 to 90 percent that of white students--with the group's relative lack of legacy students and small number of varsity athletes, both recruitment factors at the University...
...which upheld the initiative but ruled that insurance companies are entitled to "a fair and reasonable" profit. Most of the state's insurance firms maintained that they should be exempted on those grounds. After reviewing their profit statements, Gillespie said she found only 13 companies profitable enough to warrant rate rollbacks. She announced hearings to examine the exemption claims of 34 more firms, but further outraged critics by declaring that evaluations of more than 200 other companies could take as long as ten years to complete...
...Britain, the first ever to be fought entirely in the skies, anxiously watched by ordinary citizens below. Goring had roughly 1,400 bombers and nearly 1,000 fighters, the R.A.F. defenders fewer than 900 fighters. The opposing planes were roughly equal, the German Messerschmitts with a slightly faster rate of climb, the British Spitfires and Hurricanes more maneuverable. (The British also had some secret weapons: a radar warning system that the Germans greatly underestimated, and the Operation Ultra computer that broke most German military codes, particularly those of the Luftwaffe.) The outnumbered British fought with a kind of desperation that...