Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Bok calls for the ratio of men to women in Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges to fall from 4 to 1 to about 2.5 to 1 over the next four years. He proposes a decrease in the number of incoming male students from slightly over 1,200 to about 1,150 and an increase in the number of incoming female students from just over 300 to about 450. He dismisses the implementation of a one-to-one ratio as economically risky at the time...
...fixed ratio of 300 women admits to the College limited Gorelick's base of support, but not her fighting spirit...
...choices running from friendly counseling through informal warning, fines, reprimands, demotions and courts-martial. This sustains authority and flexibility but invites caprice and prejudice. Air Force defenders point out that the branch's statistics on adultery courts-martial betray little sexual bias, reflecting almost exactly the male-to-female ratio of the force. But observers contend that women, once investigated, draw harsher noncriminal penalties. According to one seasoned pilot (in a custom dubbed by others "different spanks for different ranks"), the "higher the person who commits the offense, the less happens to him." Critics cite the cases of Rear Admiral...
...problem is that the vegetarian entrees have three times as much fat and they're bad also. They have a bad fat-to-taste ratio," says Nguyen...
...keep two kinds of magazines in The Closet: ones we bind for posterity and ones that have a really high theft ratio," Kautzman said. Joining Playboy in The Closet, for example, were less racy fare such as National Geographic, WIRED and the New York Review of Books...