Word: ratio
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Quirk said that Dartmouth is only one or two points away from the average manwoman ratio in the Ivy League, which is apoproximately 60-40. "I think what we're fighting is a certain societal tilt toward the traditional roles," Quirk said...
...Trustee's statement was made in reaction to a speech given last month by Dartmouth President James O. Freedman '57, who addressed faculty for the first time since taking over as president last July. In that speech, Freedman asserted that the current imbalance in the ratio between men and women "is not healthy to either the intellectual or social life of the students," according to Alfred T. Quirk, Dartmouth's dean of admissions...
...every five years. Those with readings from 200 to 239 mg/dl are viewed as borderline cases and advised to watch their diet and be retested annually. Individuals with levels of 240 mg/dl or more are at high risk and require medical attention, including a second test to determine the ratio of "good" cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein, or HDL) to "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL). People in the borderline range who have additional risk factors, such as smoking, being male, or having a family history of heart disease, are advised to follow the same routine as those at high...
...dramatic parallel is the emergence of a new financial center where cash-laden investors are bidding wildly. In the 1920s that place was Manhattan; today it is Tokyo. In the overheated Tokyo exchange, shares are trading at about triple the level of Wall Street stocks in terms of the ratio of prices to corporate earnings. Says Eric Shubert, an international economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "Lots of inexperienced people in Tokyo are playing the market; they have switched from comic books to the stock pages, just as in America in the 1920s millions of people switched from baseball scores...
More significant, he has a high "negative" rating: 28% of Republicans said they had a "favorable" impression of him and 62% an "unfavorable" one. That 2-to-1 negative ratio was by far the worst of any candidate's. Dole, for example, has a 70% favorable rating, 17% unfavorable...