Word: ratio
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...complete with illustrations. In a literature course, he was said to have read from a diary in which he mentioned plans to "kill everybody." Asked at a news conference whether officials should have reacted, Springfield school superintendent Jamon Kent noted that funding cuts have reduced the counselor-to-student ratio to roughly 1 to 700. '"What do kids see every day in the movies?" he asked. "If we detained every student who said, 'I'm going to kill someone,' we would have a large number of students detained...
...Asia never went away, or at least it shouldn't have," says FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz. "Investors are suddenly remembering the problems all over again." Plus, says Schwartz, the markets have been ailing from within for a while now. Technical indicators like volume and the advancers/decliners ratio have been sagging for weeks, he says. "Now just seems to be the time...
...distasteful and undignified to the institution of Harvard, and this ironically at the very point students are crossing that emotional minefield between adolescence and young man--or womanhood. Harvard's famous house system, however appealingly genteel, addresses neither of these gaps and remains grossly inadequate to undergraduate needs, the ratio of students to master being far too huge and the accident of a happy match between student and master being far too uncommon. Is this the environment to which we would unreservedly consign undergraduate women...
...also implied the department needs more professors. "No chair will ever say they've got enough faculty, that would send the wrong message to the Dean [of the Faculty]," MacFarquhar said. "Our ratio of faculty-to-students is not favorable relative to other comparable institutions. [We need] more faculty to shoulder the burden...
...replacing Professor Thorn, Knowles willmaintain the current ratio of scientists tonon-scientists among the HHMI trustees...