Word: ratio
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What the FCC apparently did not know, or had failed to understand, was that this 76-to-24 ratio, while it seemed to satisfy federal requirements, said nothing about who actually owned the underlying assets of the stations. In fact, News Corp. indirectly owns more than 99%, a fact Murdoch's lawyers explicitly disclosed only last year, after prodding by the commission. The question then became: Did Murdoch lie, or was the FCC not competent enough to figure...
...school is considered in compliance with TitleIX if its ratio of female to male athletes isproportionate to its total enrollment, if it hasdemonstrated continuing expansion of its athleticprogram to meet female athletes' interests andabilities or if its current program "fully andeffectively accommodates" those interests. Pettineruled that Brown failed to meet any of the threetests...
...irresistible force of demographics has changed the most important of all Social Security figures-the ratio of workers to pensioners--beyond recognition. In 1950 there were 16 workers paying taxes for every retiree collecting benefits. Now three workers support each pensioner. And that is before the system gets hit with a double whammy as a result of the baby boom. Beginning around 2012, and extending over more than a generation, the boomers will be retiring by the millions each year. As they leave the work force, they will be replaced by the much less numerous members of the baby-bust...
...three main goals of the drive are to expand faculty, expand curriculum and have a better student to faculty ratio," Michael J. Chmura, HLS news officer, said yesterday. "Hauser Hall gives us office space for additional faculty, provides smaller classrooms to hold smaller classes in and allows us to move faculty from Langdell Hall in, so we can prepare to renovate Langdell, which is the next stage of the process...
...work and documentation. Have you ever seen a salesperson at Macy's fill in a tri-copy receipt with anything but a ball-point, sometimes engraved with the manager's son's little league team slogan, squeezed between well-manicured fingernails? In German class, I saw the ball-point ratio skyrocket. Even the Europeans, whom I had always romanticized as the last bastion of the noble fountain-pen glory, were filling in blanks on vocabulary sheets with the sliding ink of Bic pens--the kind you can buy in 20-packs at CVS. These plastic wonders are a good...