Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious solution is to sell more ads, as individual stations have already discovered. These days the average late movie runs one minute of commercial time for every four to five minutes of films. And on the popular, easily sold shows, the ratio changes painfully. A recent showing of The Pawnbroker on Manhattan's WOR-TV was interrupted by 19 60-second commercials and 14 30-second commercials. Afterward, there was another 14 minutes of station identifications and promotion announcements. It added up, Variety noted, to a minute of bucks for every three minutes of movie...
...thirds of the 32 Harvard students are first-year law men. Michael J. Haroz 1L, one of the signers, said last night that the ratio reflects only that the letter was circulated primarily among first-year students...
...nonetheless an incredible statistical consistency to the Harvard classes. The number of students admitted from California never doubles from one year to the next, and Exeter is never shut out completely. The number of Harvard sons admitted stays rather constant (although the number rejected is increasing rapidly), and the ratio of public school students to private school students changes at a slow and smooth rate, in the direction of the former...
...proposal recommending the establishment of a joint student-administration committee to improve communication between Cliffies and the administration was approved by a ratio of nine to one. The committee would serve as an advisory body to the College Council on policy matters...
Cambridge has a higher officer-to-citizen ratio-four for each 1000 residents--than the national average, Vorenberg pointed out. He called for the City Council to press the police department on how this manpower is utilized, reiterating the Commission's suggestion that more patrolmen should use cars and scooters, rather than walk their beats...