Word: ratio
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Enjoying the Advocate is all a matter of expectation. Those who expect professional competence or quasi-professional methods are almost always disappointed. The Advocate is, and must be, a place in which young writers can experiment. The ratio of losers to winners will therefore be extremely high so long as good writers are rare, good young writers rarer, and good young experimental writers are born only once in a century...
Working with what is known about the 28 accelerator-produced new particles, Grebe theorizes that they may all be multiples or combinations of only two: pairs of the negatively charged electron and the positively charged electron (positron). Reason is his discovery of two key particle ratios: that between the mass of mu and pi mesons, and that between the mass of the proton and sigma hyperon. Each proves to equal TT divided by four; this produces a new constant (1.12888), based on the inverse of the square root of TT divided by four, which Grebe calls "g." This tool "opens...
...disarmament conference in Washington, where the U.S. and Britain demanded a 10-10-6 naval ratio with Japan, the Japanese insisted that they would settle for no less than 10-10-7. But because Yardley was reading the Japanese secret cables from Tokyo, the U.S. confidently stood pat in the knowledge that the Japanese delegate would throw in his hand...
...which-so far cover grades seven through ten, classes are small (a 1-to-12 teacher-pupil ratio), and the three Rs are fitted to the individual. Most important, the teachers (all volunteers) come mainly from the overcrowded "600" schools that have handled milder malcontents for a decade. There they learned when to shrug off misbehavior, when to stand firm...
...many fields that it can offer a complete package for a movie or TV show: star, script, and sometimes even financing. M.C.A. makes much of being simply a service organization, brags of the number of executives it has servicing clients, like a college with a low teacher-student ratio. Its executives are paid on an incentive plan; senior executives get a flat $100 a week, plus a bonus-often huge-based on M.C.A.'s performance that year. Founder Stein still owns a majority of M.C.A. stock, and the remainder is held by 45 executives and a trust in which...