Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ratio of women to men for the current academic year is three-to-two. Seventy-seven percent of the program's students, whose median age is 29, have already earned college degrees...
...claim of 20,000. Although the 230,000-strong Philippine armed forces enjoy an overwhelming numerical edge, their resources are stretched thin as they attempt to combat insurgents in 59 separate areas. Moreover, as Marcos admitted in a recent TIME interview, by early 1985 the combat troop-to- guerrilla ratio had effectively deteriorated to 4 to 1. To raise the ratio to 10 to 1, the level that military theorists commonly suggest is necessary to control an insurgency, the government is training and deploying eleven new combat battalions, each with about...
They live in crowded eight-person rooming groups, have intensive classes more than three hours a day, encounter people from all nations and backgrounds, and even get homesick. Where they go to school, the male-female ratio is tilted strongly towards the male side. They learn plenty and make new friends...
...other guard spot is dependable junior Tommy Amaker, who's averaging 6.6 points and 6.8 assists per game. Amaker has better than a three-to-one assists-to-turnovers ratio...
...SIDE FROM THE elitist principles that the clubs are founded upon, their everyday practices are equally repugnant. Every year the A.D. club has its 'bimbo party' in which the ratio of women to men is greater than three to one. The A.D.'s ex-president told the Crimson two years ago that "it's not the Harvard-girl type of dance." Other clubs have reportedly used prostitutes at initiations and other events. Still others report hazing ceremonies which are disgusting at best and hazardous at worst...