Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advice of textile experts. Contradicting Adler, he maintains, "We stayed away from charring and what might have been charred." Beyond that, the samples were cleaned both mechanically and chemically to rid them of contaminants. In fact, charring per se does not alter an object's carbon 14 ratio: scientists routinely use the method to date pieces of charcoal...
...Women's Studies Committee, the absence of adequate resources for rape prevention and survivor support (an absence, we later learned, unique among Ivy League institutions) and the continued presence of elite, all-male final clubs where weekly efforts are made to attract and intoxicate a suitably large ratio of female to male undergrads, I cheered with pleasure and relief...
...feel that part of the reason we are here [at Harvard] is because we rise above stereotypes," she added, noting in response to Alatorre's comments the board's male to female ratio "is not a reflection on what the members think of women...
Panelists were divided on projected statistics demonstrating that the trust fund will expire by 2029--a problem they attributed to the increasing ratio of retirees to workers...
...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alternative to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in inverse ratio to accuracy. In actual fact, I did not prescribe mescaline for all mankind. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss the problem of a satisfactory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would certainly be preferable...