basis point

If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.

This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.