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...recent years largely by a huge increase in the numbers of women, blacks and teenagers looking for work. Often poorly educated and unskilled, these would-be workers have trouble finding jobs even during a boom. Under present conditions, about 90,000 surplus job hunters produce a one-tenth point rise in the unemployment rate...
...Wing. They had taken a basement room near a point traveled every day by Carrero Blanco's car and had dug a tunnel 20 feet under the road. They planted three explosive charges of nearly 40 lbs. each under the street, timed to explode at intervals of a tenth of a second to match the movement of the President...
...They elected 299 of their number to form a new National Assembly, which will approve a new constitution and oversee new national elections. The Assembly's members represent the most democratic political cross section in the country's history. Military and police officers have only about one-tenth of the seats, compared with two-thirds in the old Assembly. Now civil servants, academics, journalists and farmers sit side by side. The Assembly even includes a samlor driver, who intends to park his three-wheel, smoke-belching minitaxi at the National Assembly building next to the shiny Mercedes-Benzes...
...executive officer of the Gateway National Bank of St. Louis. A study by the Conference Board, a nonprofit research organization, found that in 1971 minority banks loaned 40% as much money in their communities as white banks did, even though the minority banks' assets equaled less than one-tenth of 1% of the white banks' wealth...
...high school seniors who took its Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT). The profile revealed many noteworthy facts (girls got higher average scores, for example, yet had less ambitious college plans than boys). But one seemingly ominous result attracted the most attention: the mean SAT scores had declined for the tenth year in a row. The biggest drop was in this year's verbal scores, from a mean of 450 in 1971-72 to 443 in 1972-73. That compared to a verbal mean...