Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concerned about the additives in commercial preparations, are stocking up on organic foods for Fido. The holistic offerings at Lick Your Chops, a Westport, Conn., pet-food emporium, include oatmeal cookies and garlic-flavored biscuits. While most veterinarians see little advantage to such fare, adherents claim that the high ratio of vegetable ingredients produces healthier pets. The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog advocates feeding Rover what he would eat in the wild. Animal Herb Blend, a mixture of some 20 herbs, including fennel and raspberry leaves, simu- lates the ingredients found inside, say, a wild rabbit's stomach...
...almost as well. In 1965 one-third were classified below the poverty line; today only 14% are. But in 2025, when there will be some 64 million people over 65, the nation will have fewer than four working- age individuals for every retirement-age person. "This is the lowest ratio ever," says Gordon Green of the Census Bureau, "and has serious implications for the solvency of the Social Security system...
Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...
...next year--the second joint Radcliffe-Harvard ceremony, about 200 Radcliffe seniors wore red and white banners sporting female gender symbols over their gowns. Coming out of a class with a male-female ratio of four to one, the graduates called for Harvard to balance the number of men and women accepted...
...several years Speaker Tip O'Neill has kept some key House committees at a 2-to-1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans. This has rankled the G.O.P., which argues that a ratio of 3 to 2 would be more in line with overall party representation in the chamber. Last week that resentment flared over the contested Indiana seat that committee Democrats declared belonged to Frank McCloskey, one of their own. Even usually calm and gentle souls like Wyoming's Dick Cheney declared war and kept the House sleepless and fuming through Monday night and in parliamentary uproar all week long...