Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening example of a state where justice is often colored by the condition of a defendant's pocketbook, Justice Goldberg might well have mentioned Georgia, where one out of every 434 citizens is behind bars-as against a national ratio of one out of every 1,000. Of the more than 5,000 Georgians imprisoned in state institutions each year for misdemeanors, 40% are locked up simply because they are unable to pay small fines. Examples: - A 17-year-old girl got one year for having two jars of moonshine in her house; the alternative fine...
...could be constructed out of tetrahedrons-the triangle-sided pyramid shape that provides the greatest strength for the least volume (or weight). In a sphere made of such interlocked tetrahedrons, the weight load applied to any point was transmitted widely throughout the structure, producing a phenomenal strength-to-weight ratio. Bucky produced his dome by cutting a hollow sphere in half...
...matter how long they go unmated, they never wiggle their abdomens. Dr. Schaller believes that such Phausis dullness keeps the sexes from getting together. As a kind of compensation for this biological disadvantage, there are five blundering Phausis males for each female, while the efficient Lampyris male-to-female ratio...
...Rains. Although casualty figures have been running consistently against the Viet Cong, the ratio of weapons captured has averaged more than three to one in their favor; last week the Viet Cong lost 85 weapons while capturing 300. The Communists control about as much South Viet Nam territory as ever, and infiltration of arms and men from North Viet Nam is on the increase. One alleged route: from Red China and North Viet Nam by ship to Sihanoukville, the new port of "neutralist" Cambodia, thence in junks to the Mekong Delta or by truck along Cambodia's U.S.-built...
Small & Intensive. Unlike state-run universities, where 100 or more students may crowd into a classroom, the church schools believe in a close student-professor relationship. At Mexico City's Ibero-American University, there is one teacher for every five students; among Brazil's Catholic universities, the ratio is one to six. Says one Catholic-university professor who turned down a high-paying offer from a state school: "I would rather teach 60 students intensively, knowing each individually, than deal with 1,000 students, among whom, at the end of the year, I might get to know only...