Word: percent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venkataraman stresses the importance of the Community Development Plan in India's economic success. "Community volunteers are an important part of the government. A village agrees to provide 25 percent of the materials for a school or hospital, and the government does the rest. Now it has gotten so we can't keep up with the villages' initiative...
James S. Duesenberry, professor of Economics, considering the unemployment aspect of the recession, felt that the present recovery trends will not be sufficient to bring unemployment below four percent. He stated that "there is no justification for basing all our policy on the assumption that excess demand is going to develop...
...perhaps unfair to judge the rushing system entirely in the harsh light of the superficiality, injustice and distress which are its characteristics. Not only does it train the Rush Committees for later life, but a good rushee will emerge broad gauge. Approximately 30 percent of each class is given the advantage of this special training. Although 30 percent is a democratic enough figure, the College Dean's office reports that four fifths of this group attended private schools...
Possibly he hadn't tried hard enough. The others entertained ambitions--intellectual ambitions, athletic ambitions, social and political ambitions--and those who entertain ambitions undershoot the mark a good sixty-two percent of the time. This is the real key to dejection, but a key Falstaff never held. He simply didn't desire. He didn't care to. He really didn't care...
...finally, Falstaff left. He had dug deep-seeking dry-rot in his soul's garden and found nothing, so he changed scenes, joined the two percent, went abroad. And there he is today, still delightfully happy, ever hunting misfortune, bearing always the curse of the modern Cain--a horrible isolation in his happiness...