Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possibility of legalizing illicit drugs. Clinton's knee-jerk, anti-intellectual response, which can be fairly summarized as "No way, nohow; not now, not ever," is bad enough. Worse is his silent acceptance of policies that shortchange drug treatment, an abandonment of his pledge to invert the ratio of funds spent on drug interdiction vs. treatment, a split that continues to allocate $13.1 billion of federal antidrug money in favor of law enforcement by more than 2 to 1. It's true that "druggies don't vote," as a senior Administration official says, and also that the President is fearful...
...free throw Shooting is still bad. So is the assist-to-turnover ratio. And in perhaps the worst resemblance to its recent predecessors, this season's squad has shown that penchant for letting close games slip away...
...Psychiatrist Peter Marzuk, who led the study, speculates that some of the suicides might have called for help or otherwise survived if they had used a slower method, such as a tranquilizer overdose. Only 30,000 of 300,000 annual suicide attempts are successful, but Marzuk fears that this ratio could go up if the plastic-bag technique continues to spread. Advocates for the right to euthanasia point out that the overall suicide rate has not risen. They put another interpretation on the numbers: people who would have killed themselves anyway are switching to less grisly means...
...That women's wages are two-thirds of men's wages, and the ratio is basically unchanging...
...other information" which participating schools would have to report would include the average student-to-teacher ratio, the graduation rate and the basic curriculum offered. The state would then provide the schoolchildren's parents with a compendium of data on every school statewide which participates in the voucher program. Schools refusing to disclose this information would forfeit voucher eligibility...