Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absence. There were almost no freshmen. "Where the boys are" is as appropriate a name as ever; the boys outnumber the girls by about five to one, in both Lauderdale and Daytona. By the middle of the week, when many of the girls have been picked up, the ratio becomes much more unfavorable -- something like a Radcliffe jolly...
...statistical studies next fall confirm this forecast, the class will have a 57-43 public school-private school ratio and average college board aptitude scores hovering around the 700 mark...
Mail from Massachusetts residents to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R.Mass.) has been running four to one in favor of the bill, an assistant in his office reported yesterday, but last summer the ratio was as high as 50-1. Mail to Saltonstall's office from other states, however, has been "99% against the bill," according to the side. Most of these out-of-state letters are from California and the South...
Politically, however, Brownie Reid has everything working for him. His district, embracing most of Westchester County, has never yet sent a Democrat to Washington. Voter registration is Republican 2 to 1, a ratio so immutable that any man the Republicans put up campaigns largely for appearance's sake. Moreover, during his two years in office, although Congressman Reid has done little, he has done absolutely nothing to turn the voters against...
Although manufacturers expect their sales to rise at least 6% to a new record this year, they have shown no intention of panicking into a massive inventory buildup, plan to buy just enough to keep stocks at the present ratio of 1.5 times sales volume. Their restraint is important to the economy, since rapid buildups during past periods of good business have had a major hand in triggering recessions. It also means that inventories, long used as a dependable indicator, from now on will be far less valuable in charting the course of the economy...