Word: quarter
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Barring a major transformation in the abilities of Massachusetts high school students over the next three years, more than a quarter of the high school class of 2003 will not be eligible to receive a diploma...
...offer programs you can download from their websites and use for up to $5 a month. In October MSN launched a $5-a-month, members-only service in Atlanta, Seattle and San Diego and plans to go nationwide by March. Research firm IDC predicts that more than a quarter of U.S. households will use an Internet call-waiting service by the end of next year...
...news about Visudyne is, there are some important caveats to bear in mind. The drug is not a cure. At best, it preserves the status quo. It will not restore vision that has already been lost. Nor does it work for everyone. Company officials estimate that only one-quarter to one-half of the 200,000 or so Americans who develop the severest form of macular degeneration each year will benefit. But for them, it could be the window on the world that allows them to maintain their independence...
Murawczyk hit a 44-yard field goal at 3:48 of the first to open the scoring. In a game the Crimson lost by three points, Giampaolo continued his kicking woes at The Game, sailing a 24-yarder wide right at the start of the second quarter...
Soon after leading the first European crossing of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, explorer Gregory Blaxland was back on his New South Wales farm, tending his vines. By 1822 he had sufficient confidence in his winemaking skills to submit a quarter-pipe (about 37 gal.) of red wine for assessment by the London-based Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. The society's judges awarded him a silver medal--and five years later a gold medal--for a wine they described with tepid enthusiasm as having "much the odor and flavor of ordinary claret...