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Word: percent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against this national gloom and concern, prospective candidates are rising or falling on the extent to which they are seen as strong leaders. The survey found Kennedy to have the highest leadership rating of all the presidential prospects. Fifty-eight percent said they felt Kennedy was "very strong" as a leader and only 12% said he was "not strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Still Looking for a Leader | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...just finished, we got in about three hours of work a day, what with lunch and makeup." This month she begins filming Circle of Two, a love story about a teen-ager and a painter of 60, played by Richard Burton. Tatum will get $500,000 and a percent of the gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...over 2 million wells have been drilled in the United States--four times as many as in all the rest of the noncommunist world combined." Shale oil would cost far more than conventional oil and takes too long to develop--"a production level equal to about half of one percent of U.S. oil consumption--100,000 barrels a day--would require a billion dollars and a decade"--as well as using enormous quantities of water, which would incite the opposition of farmers and ranchers. On divestiture, Stobaugh writes...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Sunshine At The B-School | 7/24/1979 | See Source »

OPEC has declared war on the Western world. An infinitesimal percent of the earth's population is directing the destruction of the economic foundation of the world. Odd and even selling days are not the answer. The basic solution is that the OPEC cartel must be broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1979 | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...that had exonerated Vorster, the commission concluded that he had lied in sworn testimony concerning his role in the whole affair. One witness testified that he had once asked Vorster whether the government itself was being blackmailed by Eschel Rhoodie, one of Mulder's key aides. "A thousand percent," Vorster is said to have replied. "He holds my ministers' political life in the hollow of his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Vorster Quits | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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