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...aviation, electronic utilities and appliances in the 1920s, and more recently, the Internet, chips, software, bandwidth and biotech. The small top tier of Americans with the large stockholdings are always lopsided beneficiaries, which increases the concentration of wealth and income in the top one percent (especially the top one-tenth of one percent). By 1928-29, the top one percent share of total U.S. wealth (some 40-44%) and income (some 17-19%) maximized at levels that were only reached again, roughly, in the last years of the 1990s...
...listers per year represent a tiny fraction of the 1,650 students in each Harvard class and—even if all 20 were legacies—less than one-tenth of the legacies accepted...
...those arrows rarely come to easy agreements about what direction the city should take, since each councillor represents about one-tenth of the city’s voters...
...Cambridge’s unusual proportional representation voting system—which mandates that each candidate must receive only one-tenth of the “number one” votes in order to nab a seat on the city council—each city councillor has only a “narrow” political constituency to look out for, Healy says...
...Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships this past weekend in Camden, Radcliffe finished third in a time of 6:37.44, just over one-tenth of a second ahead of Mercyhurst. Princeton won in a time of 6:26.24, and Wisconsin came in second...