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As a result of these and other ways to make students legally independent of their parents, the number of independent students has skyrocketed--in the '70s, fewer than 20 percent of undergrads were independent; today more than half are.
In a bare six and a half pages Rybakin takes us on a crash course in the history of English first names, from Anglo-Saxon Æthelbeald to the titlederived names of modern times such as Duke and Earl . He rightly devotes part of his survey to a consideration of surnames as first names, although in his main entries names of this type such as Bradley, Chester, Clifford, and Seymour are simply explained as deriving `from the surname.
For example, more than half the states allow corporate contributions and labor contributions, while federal law prohibits such contributions.
By the time Starr sent his report to Congress, polls indicated half the public placed no faith in his findings.
The WSJ reports that last year, the purchase of the average-priced new vehicle took almost exactly half a year's worth of median family income.