Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many correspondents offer carefully thought out advice. One particularly astute fan suggested the superior parabolic trajectory followed by elliptical winks. "He was absolutely right," admits Parry. "We experimented and found that the best ratio between the major axis and the semi-minor axis...
...reason for the popularity of AMC stock was its compact price. Even at last week's high, American Motors sold for less than half the cheapest of the Big Three stocks; yet its 10-to-1 price-earnings ratio was as good or better than the bigger automakers could boast. Another attraction to investors was the fact that AMC is one of the few big U.S. industrial corporations with no long-term debt to worry about; since its brush with bankruptcy in the early 1950s, the company has totally paid off its once crushing burden of debt, and such...
...result. Reed is often said to have the "smartest body of undergraduates in America." This year's average Reed freshman ranked in the top 4% of all U.S. students taking college board exams; one-third of the class was in the top 2%. Reed leads the country in ratio of Rhodes scholarships to male graduates (1 to 71), in percentage of graduates winning Woodrow Wilson fellowships, and in percentage of graduates who have gone on to become college and university teachers, notably in science. Just for variety, Reed also lists such odd alumni as a talented writer who became...
...Psychotherapy, Josiah Macy Foundation, 1960) presents a table of "problems encountered" in 8,640 treatment doses and 3427 experimental doses, thirteen investigators reporting. Three problems were reported--"one disrobing," "one suicide in a drug addict," and one three-day paranoia. This represents a danger ratio of .0003. Compare these data with danger expectancies of alcohol, tobacco, or automobile driving...
...Stimpson said that this trend may well continue when the entire class is chosen in the Spring. The early decision public-private school ratio is not indicative of the final ratio because in the spring there is much larger percentage of applicants from the midwest and other areas where girls usually attend public schools...