Word: quarters
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...some pundits predicted, but the ranks of the long-term unemployed have swelled to levels not seen since 1997, and the number of people working part time because they're unable to find full-time employment has reached a new record. Although the pound has lost a quarter of its value against the dollar since 2008, Britain's global goods deficit actually widened in January, with exports declining 6.9%. A weaker pound means the U.K. has to pay more for imports like fuel, increasing fears of inflation. (See pictures of London...
...just the size of the debt that causes anxiety; it's whom we owe it to. Foreign governments, to which we are already beholden for the bulk of our energy, own a quarter of our debt. Now the U.S. government can't function without their aid? It's scary...
Last semester, Hammonds was left with the task of filling House Master positions in almost a quarter of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses. Within a span of two weeks during the end of 2009, Cabot House Masters Jay M. Harris and Cheryl L. Harris, Eliot House Masters Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted, and Mather House Masters Sandra F. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 announced that they will step down from their positions at the end of the academic year, citing a variety of reasons ranging from a heavy workload...
...instead, Enron on an average night only fills about half the seats, it could take as long as five months before the play turns a profit. If only a quarter of the seats sell for full price, the play, much like the company it dramatizes, will end up being a financial bust...
Though Brent had his parents to teach him this method, Mike had to learn it the hard way. Playing Alabama during the 1982 season, Mike accidentally blocked his own team’s punt late in the fourth quarter, when he backed into the punter and the ball hit off his head. The play cost the Nittany Lions, who were down by just three points, the game, as the Crimson Tide recovered the fumble and went...