Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investors are therefore nervous -as witness the fact that even the mutual funds were staying relatively clear of Wall Street. According to second-quarter reports, the mutuals have some $2.3 billion waiting to be invested. This represents about 61% of their assets in cash and marketable securities, the highest ratio since...
Opportunity Broadens. Wall Street is leary of the movie industry because it so often soars and dips on hit movies or bombs. In spite of success, United's price-earnings ratio has stayed low, and its opportunity to grow has been hampered. Now, with financial backing from stronger Consolidated, it will be able to explore such fields as television, books, magazines and music publishing. Under the Cummings system of decentralized management, moreover, United's old team will continue to run the motion-picture business. All Cummings will have to do, he hopes, is count the earnings and perhaps...
...more to come: an estimated 100,000 more U.S. fighting men to be added to the 275,000 who are now "in-country" by the end of this year. Until the U.S. buildup began last summer, Communist and Allied casualties had been rising at roughly equal rates. Then the ratio shifted dramatically, and ever since the Communists have been losing three to four soldiers for every Allied loss. In the new war that Giap confronts, it is his own men who are being gnawed, harassed, hounded and hunted by day and night. Such sanctuaries as Zone C and Zone...
...least two months in the republic's pathetically few and ill-equipped general hospitals. Their patients are the 15.5 million civilians for whom there is, in effect, only one Vietnamese doctor available for every 50,000-well over 50 times worse than the physician-patient ratio...
...More Girls. To correct some of these faults, the report urges a 25% increase in the Oxford faculty to produce a ratio of one teacher for each ten students. New entrance examinations would be tailored to give state-school students a better chance. Oxford's tutorials, says the report, have kept university dons too busy to prepare lectures properly, and should be cut back. Coordination would be aided by strengthening the powers of the operating chief, the university vice chancellor. Many other recommendations seem timid. For example, the report proposes that Oxford grow only by about 3,000 students...