Word: percent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...media said little about the 80 percent of peasant families remaining landless, about the growing shanty towns holding the displaced peasants, the misery and alienation of these people ripped from their traditional way of life and subject to new economic and cultural pressures...
...enacted, the VAT will tax the values added to all goods at each stage of the production and sales process. Every time a manufacturer or entrepreneur raises the price of a product, the government will tax this added value at a rate of 10 percent. Without the VAT, Ernest and Julio Gallo sell their Pinot Chardonnay to a wine distributor for $18 a case. But this tax will force the Gallo Bros. to raise the price of their wine to $20, to cover the $2 they will have to pay the government. The wine distributor then sells the Pinot Chardonnay...
...fill a "crippling need" among Boston area students, 95 percent of whom attend "unacceptable" schools, Boston Magazine has published yet another (circulation-promoting) article on Harvard in this month's issue...
...Ninety percent of those who dropped out did so because they can no longer afford or even qualify for mortgages...
...background of this election remains one of pessimism and economic worry. Sixty-nine percent say they feel the country is in "deep and serious trouble...