Word: percent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seventy-two percent of the gas now going out to consumers is bound under long-term contract at the old price of 75? per thousand cubic feet. But many of these contracts are about to expire. So, as more gas comes onto the market at the new prices of between $1.99 and $2.26 per thousand cubic feet, consumers will be hit with increases...
...Thirty percent of the audience-or a 30 share, in broadcast jargon-is usually considered respectable. A share is the percent of the people watching television who are tuned in to a show. It indicates how well the show is doing against the others in its time slot. If the people in 50 million households are watching TV on Thursday night at 8, and 25 million are tuned in to Mork & Mindy, the program would have a 50 share. A rating, on the other hand, is the percentage of all the 74 million households in the country that have...
...only central exchange for dealing in such high-cost properties AMREX is prospering. It charges a ½% commission on the first $1 million of any transaction and ¼% each million above it. Twenty-five percent of this amount goes to the floor specialist who put the deal together. (Most specialists successfully close from three to five deals a month but may make as many as 20 prospective match-ups a day.) Though Jackson's expansion plans include opening a London office, his customers seem quite pleased with the present setup. Says Connelly AMREX is like a candy store. There...
...poll, to be released next week, offers solace for both sides in the running war. Five percent of all sedentary Americans declare they will desert to the enemy and take up jogging during 1979. On the other hand, Harris finds that the jogging craze-and growth of interest in all forms of physical exercise-is slowing down. "Involvement will continue to increase," says Harris, "but less rapidly than it has in the past...
...Picture is more complicated at Harvard. Women will soon constitute close to 50 percent of the undergraduate student body. If those women were to perceive themselves as Radcliffe students, then when they have their turn at wealth and power, that wealth and power would accrue not to Harvard, but to Radcliffe. However, to the extent that wealth is power, Radcliffe, compared to Harvard, is indeed powerless. A $36 million endowment is not much compared to one worth $1 billion. And the balance of power in the U.S. (or in the world) is not about to shift so drastically that women...