Meanings (ES + gloss)
políticamente correcto
Sensitive to giving offense on the grounds of race, sex, etc.
A man cannot be politically correct and a chauvinist too.
Why do they call camels "Ships-of-the-desert" ? [...] Because they're full of Iranian seamen. (NOW, being politically correct you must, of course, substitute "martian" What a cleve…
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por ciento
One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
And from 1966, under Regulation Q, there was a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on their deposit rates, a quarter of a per cent more than banks were allowed to pay.
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