Word: cent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business School is considering a proposal to lift the quota on the number of foreign students admitted to the MBA program. This would do away with the current limit of ten per cent, permitting an estimated 120 foreign students to enter next year's class of 750 students...
Judge said he favors eliminating the quota except for a five per cent minimum for non-English speaking countries in Asia, Africa. and Latin America-a proposal now under the consideration of the Admissions Policy Committee...
...savor to bland food and give it a "meaty" taste. Japanese chemists discovered in 1908 that an active ingredient of the seaweed is MSG. Not only many Americans but some Orientals as well suffer a sensitivity reaction to MSG-sold in the U.S. under the trade name Ac'cent-and virtually all such sensitive people will react to an excessive dose with discomforting, if temporary allergic symptoms. After recent outbreaks of this "Chinese restaurant syndrome," New York City's department of health has instructed cooks to use MSG sparingly, but no one knows what precise limits should...
...demonstrators were calling attention to demands that Harvard promote workers now classified as "painters' helpers"-a majority of whom are black-and agree to employ a least 20 per cent "black and third world" workers on its construcion sites...
...meeting last night also voted to stage a mass rally on January 9 to gather support for the demands that Harvard promote the painters' helpers and hire 20 per cent black and third world construction workers...