Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official illegitimacy rate in the U.S. since 1940.* At the same time, the Depression-born ranks of people aged 25 to 35, who most commonly want to adopt children, are proportionately slender now. There are still many more young couples wanting children than there are available infants. But the ratio, once 10 to 1, is now down to 5 to 1 in small towns, 3 to 1 in New York and other Eastern cities. In California and Flor ida, where many unmarried pregnant women go to have their babies-presumably to combine a vacation with a secret confinement-there...
...will emphasize tutorial and independent studies instead of course-work. The Master of the new division, James Redfield, for several years fulfilled his offer to teach Greek to all comers. The student body of 2,500, taught by its own faculty numbering 350, maintains an incredibly high faculty-student ratio of one to eight...
...Finally it stops--just short of engulfing the audience. A Cinerama screen is breathtaking: the height of the one in Boston in 25 feet and the width (stated as a chord drawn from one end of the curved screen to the other) is 64 feet. The height to width ratio of the projected image is 1 to 2.85, and that they (quite rightly) call Super Panavision...
...Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury was corning to the banks for billions more to finance the budget deficit. Under longstanding moral and legal commitments that they could not ignore, the banks were also shelling out corporate loans faster than they were taking in deposits. In New York City banks, the ratio of loans climbed to well over 70% of deposits, a 45-year peak...
...spends at least $4 billion annually to provide new services and improve technology, has always raised the bulk of its money through sale of stock, got less than 35% of it from the long-term money market v. 50% for other utilities. A.T. & T. is gradually raising its debt ratio, is being goaded to borrow even more by critics who point out that the interest on debts would be less expensive than dividends paid to stockholders. The FCC, in upholding the 8% rate of return that A.T. & T. insists on, could conceivably, for the first time, demand a voice...