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Conley's leap was 59 feet, 7 inches--the second-longest ever. Although the mark won't count because the wind was one-tenth of a meter too strong, he earlier set an Olympic record...
Thus, when the White House decided to send a top official to St. Louis last week to counter the Clinton-Gore bus tour, it assigned presidential adviser Clayton Yeutter, who emphasized that "Clinton does not have one-tenth the stature that the President has all over the world. The American people are going to wake up and realize this...
Three fourths of our bilateral trade deficit with Japan comes from the importation of automobiles, evoking the image of bloated American executives (who make 10 times the salary of their Japanese counterparts and preside over companies about one-tenth as successful) calling on the president to advertise for them when business, as always, is bad--a great deal as long as Bush does not charge...
...Lourdes, the biggest of France's 937 pilgrimage shrines, annual attendance in the past two years has jumped 10%, to 5.5 million. Many new visitors are East Europeans, now free to express their beliefs and to travel. Despite the inevitable attraction of Lourdes for the ill and aged, one-tenth of the faithful these days are 25 or younger. "We also have new kinds of pilgrimages," reports Loic Bondu, a spokesman at the site. "They dance, they ) sing, they praise out loud. They're more exuberant...
...One cause for concern is that heterosexual transmission is the rule, not the exception, in most countries affected by the disease. Figures released by the World Health Organization last week show that 75% of the people who have the AIDS virus worldwide were infected heterosexually. In Africa, where one-tenth of the world's population accounts for half the estimated 10 million AIDS infections around the globe, heterosexual transmission is responsible for more than 8 out of 10 cases. In Southern and Southeast Asia, where the epidemic is growing more rapidly than anywhere else, heterosexual contact is also the dominant...