Word: ratio
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Even worse, the church lacks the ecclesiastical manpower to serve the sheep still within the fold. The ratio of priests to laymen in Latin America is 1 to 5,600 (in the U.S. it is 1 to 785). The Catholic seminary in La Paz, Bolivia, currently has only one seminarian; when he is ordained, he will be the institution's first new priest in four years. Almost half of the continent's clergy are foreigners, most of them Spaniards, Italians and Irish-Americans. More often than not, they are better-educated and more zealous than the native priests...
...knock them on their ass." There was further frustration when a bid by Negroes to prevent a sales-tax rise-partly to finance a 50-man increase in the police force-was defeated. The tax hike passed 3 to 2, which is roughly the ratio of whites to Negroes in Memphis...
...teachers refuse to enter the classroom, instead try to join the already ample civil service. In a country where only five in more than 1,000 youths attend college, quantity would seem to be as important as quality, but Makerere maintains a luxurious 8-to-l student-faculty ratio. Uganda's President Milton Obote, a Makerere graduate, has accused the university of being "uninvolved with the needs of our society...
...girls, interracial dating is a very stimulating prospect. "I just think brown skin looks healthier," insists one California student. "Negro boys are carried away with pretty white faces and long flashy hair," snaps an admittedly jealous black high school girl in Washington, D.C. On some campuses with a high ratio of Negro athletes, mixed dating is inevitable. "There just weren't any spook chicks around," says Harold Busby, a U.C.L.A. student and star athlete. "Who were we supposed to date...
...however, a strange taste--limited, and in some ways, inaccurate. One of the most important components of the Harvard "winter" experience is the sense of fraternity and superiority which comes from the College's unmatched exclusiveness. Harvard College accepts 1200 students from over 7000 applicants; Radcliffe's ratio is similar. Justifiably or not, it does something to an adolescent's psyche to know he is one of this group, even though he knows the group was chosen through an elaborate, only partly meritocratic, admissions process...