Search Details

Word: percenting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

According to the study, 75 percent of rap lyrics portray education as “limited and naïve as a means to financial success,” and that “teachers and schools are not to be trusted...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Rap Music’s ‘Bad Rap’ | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

While Omnilert is currently working with Harvard and other universities to achieve 100 percent participation in its text message alert system, Catalano said that students, faculty, and staff should remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity...

Author: By Shan Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Officials Respond To NIU Shooting | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Dingman also said that it is still unclear how Princeton will encourage 10 percent of its incoming student body to take a gap year...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Princeton To Fund International Service Gap Year | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...half a century of federal neglect and localized cruelty have undermined that law’s intent. The USDA now argues that the Humane Slaughter Act does not apply to poultry at all—meaning that 90 percent of the nation’s farm animals, or nine billion birds, are killed every year with no federal oversight. The Humane Society is contesting that interpretation, but in the meantime anything is allowed—as workers at a West Virginia Pilgrim’s Pride Slaughterhouse demonstrated when undercover footage revealed them stomping on live chickens and slamming others...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Where’s the Beef? | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...safety of Kurdistan, the town of 20,000 has seen its population jump by a half in just a matter of years as refugees have poured in from violence further south. Osama Thomas, the owner of Love Vision, a store in Ankawa that makes wedding videos, said about 80 percent of his clients were from Baghdad (which he left in 1995), and everyone had suffered some kind of tragedy. Indeed, half of his own family has been kidnapped or killed since 2003. "That's normal in Iraq," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exile on Love Street | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

First | Previous | 514 | 515 | 516 | 517 | 518 | 519 | 520 | 521 | 522 | 523 | 524 | 525 | 526 | 527 | 528 | 529 | 530 | 531 | 532 | 533 | 534 | Next | Last