Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beholder, for there can be no doubt about the numbers. Italian governments have been abusing their credit cards for 20 years, piling debt onto debt. Only once in the past dozen years has the annual budget deficit been less than 10% of GDP. By contrast, the worst U.S. ratio was 3.8% in 1983; last year it was only 1.8%. Moreover, most of Italy's debt is short to medium term, subject to volatile interest rates. A 1% rise in short-term rates costs the government 7 trillion lire ($5.1 billion) annually in extra interest...
...week survey by TIME found a similar ratio on a national basis: only 14 of the 464 gun deaths resulted from defensive firing. An alarming 216 were suicides, 22 were accidental, and many of the rest involved homicides among people who knew each other well rather than citizens gunned down by strangers...
...found to be true, Time would have been obligated under Delaware law to seek the maximum immediate return to shareholders by auctioning the company to the highest bidder. Paramount's argument that Time's directors were selling the company to Warner rested partly on the fact that the exchange ratio of the proposed stock swap would have given Warner stockholders 62% of the shares of the combined company. In Paramount's view, that situation amounted to a transfer of corporate control...
...every schoolchild used to know, is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But in the electronic age, the ancient Babylonian constant -- or rather the accurate calculation of its value -- has become a symbol of computational prowess. In the 1950s the U.S. led the way, churning out estimates of pi accurate to thousands and tens of thousands of decimal places. Then the French took the lead. With the emergence of Japan's supercomputer industry in the 1980s, pi has become an almost exclusive province of the Japanese. The last world record, 201 million digits...
...School students defeat the referendum brought by the Students' Alliance For Fairness by a more than two-to-one ratio. Opponents say the amendment would have barred some minority students from committees...