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...died of a heart attack on Nov. 26, 1985, during his tenth term on the committee. Within a week, the school committee had changed the name of the Roberts School to the Maynard School...
Home to much of the world's population, China is already the subject nine Core courses. And this year, a tenth--Historical Studies A-77, "The Emergence of Modern China, ca. 1600-2000"--has been added to the list...
...debates and his participation contributed to high voter turnout and won him some 20 percent of the popular vote. Despite the fact that one in five voters supported Perot in 1992, the Commission kept him out of the 1996 debates--he did not even win a tenth of the popular vote that year. Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura was polling around 8 percent before his state's televised debate--it was his performance in that debate which helped him win the election, gaining around a third of the popular vote...
...Especially in Sydney, we still tend to embrace the disreputable. Organized religion doesn't play one-tenth the part in Australian life that it does in American; the churches have power, but compared with the U.S. our civilization is almost entirely secular. Our state-sponsored education is excellent, and we do not give a cent in subsidies to church schools. And we have fierce democratic commitments that hardly exist in America. It is, for example, a (lightly) punishable offense not to vote in a national election. As for campaign contributions, and all the corruption and perversion of democracy that...
...tenth of the country's armor can fit on a single commercial freighter, and last week Canadian troops had to storm that freighter to get it back. The equipment, en route home from Kosovo, had been held up by the shipping firm because of an unpaid bill...