Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea behind a controlled choice plan, as Willie explains it, is that parents will get to choose their children's school subject to one constraint, race. Boston will be divided into three zones, and each school will have a racial ratio within 10 percent of the zone's racial ratio. Willie, a professor of education and urban studies, says that students will be allowed to attend any school in their zone so long as the racial balance of the school remains intact...
Under the controlled choice plan in Boston, every school with grades kindergarten through eight would be about 70 percent minority and 30 percent white, reflecting the ratio of the entire school population. High schools may be included in the plan at a later date, Willie says...
...lightweight stubbornly lingers. In a Yankelovich Clancy Shulman poll taken for TIME before the Inauguration, half of those questioned had no particular impression of Quayle, and 30% viewed him unfavorably. Asked if Quayle is qualified to assume the presidency, 52% said no and only 30% said yes -- a poorer ratio than the negative vote he drew in August (44% no, 33% yes), when Bush had just selected him as running mate...
Senior James F. Amfpacher, the editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, said that a recent student poll showed that students opposed a dry campus by a ratio of nine to one. The newspaper has editorialized against an alcohol...
...double-talk. That is often the language of politics, particularly in the Middle East, where the vocabulary of straight talk is almost always made up of fighting words. Arafat may still be talking out of both sides of his mouth, but there is an important change in the ratio: there are fewer euphemisms for terrorism and more code words for a negotiated settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict...