Word: ratio
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Although they retain control of the rugged Hindu Kush region, the rebel guerrillas have suffered heavy casualties since the Soviet invasion last December. Intelligence experts believe the casualty ratio is about six mujahidin (holy warriors) to one Soviet soldier. Thus far an estimated 30,000 mujahidin have been killed or wounded. Last week leaders of five rebel groups met in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar to form yet another loosely structured "united front." Their aim: to seek financial support for more arms. One group sent representatives to mosques throughout Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, hoping to collect...
...come from such groups as the Gray Panthers, is becoming less virulent. One ought to add that attitudes had better change. American society contains an ever swelling number and proportion of older people. Today nearly 25 million Americans, or 11.2% of the total, are over 65, and the ratio of that bracket is rising sharply. To foreclose senior citizens from society's respect and affection will mean more in the future than pain to the graying population. It will mean serious generational conflict for everybody...
...ratio of tenured women faculty at Harvard to men is "abominable," Millett said, adding, "Harvard women are a classic case of being assimilated and smothered." Students at Harvard must refuse to be diminished, minimalized, and colonized by sexist practices, Millett urged...
...country is in a decidedly hawkish mood. Seventy-eight percent favor more defense spending. A majority (74%) support building U.S. military bases in the Middle East, sending large-scale military aid to Pakistan (62%), and supplying military aid to the rebels in Afghanistan (57%). By a 3-to-l ratio, voters agree with the statement that the U.S. "may have to come close to risking war in order to make peace...
...most startling manifestation of global outrage was last week's (United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution denouncing the Soviet invasion and calling for "the immediate, unconditional and total withdrawal of the foreign troops from Afghanistan." By the overwhelming ratio of 104 to 18 (with 30 either abstaining or absent), the resolution passed, handing Moscow its most serious U.N. setback since the 1956 condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Dozens of Third World states that have long followed the Moscow line almost automatically on international affairs last week went on record against the U.S.S.R. Commented a senior West...