Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill ratio in these battles as great as the U.S. forces have claimed...
Most of the newsmen I talked to just laughed. The body count is given primarliy by the South Vietnamese. If you compare the number of bodies supposedly counted to the number of weapons captured, the ratio was five, six, and even seven to one. The reporters told me to look at that figure because they said weapons are a good indication of how many soldiers you have killed...
...kind happened. And to further coat Giap's pill with bitterness, he took losses that most other states' armies would consider unacceptable. The allies estimated that more than 27,000 Communists died in the attacks and, even allowing for considerable inflation of the figure, the ratio of enemy dead to those of the allies was worse than 7 or 8 to 1. Of the 28 provincial capitals seized across the country, not one remained totally in enemy hands. An astonishing total of more than 5,000 Communist suspects were taken. By contrast, the allied dead numbered...
...fund's money into little-known firms with untapped market potential. Over a third of the companies on Enterprise's list are still traded over the counter. When he cases a situation, Carr looks for two things: proven, imaginative management and a low price-earnings ratio. That way he is likely to catch a star as it moves from small to medium size...
...rich" country--the United States, Russia, Canada, Australia, Japan, and the developed Western European countries--was supported by about twenty times as much industrial and agricultural wealth as his counter-part in a poor country in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. More frightening, by the year 2000 the ratio will be about...