Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually, the entire system could collapse of its own weight as beneficiaries threaten to outnumber workers paying into it. The President observed that the ratio of workers to beneficiaries has dropped from 16 to 1 to less than 4 to 1 in 30 years...
...College admitted 2111 students to the Class of 1985 in April. The group includes the highest number of minority students and the lowest male-female ratio in the College's history...
...board of education member explains that the proposed spending cut would force the firing of 25% of the teaching staff, the scrapping of all electives, the ballooning of the town's enviable 14-to-l ratio of students to teachers-in short, the end to "quality education" in Weston...
...former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade) get a stiff dose of moral education and free-enterprise economics in small classes (average pupil-teacher ratio...
...issues to be women's issues," Colker says. "We were fully integrated into the women's community and most of us were very quiet about being lesbians. We were working on affirmative action, women's studies, abortion funding at UHS, equal treatment for women's sports, the housing sex ratio at the Quad...