Word: ratio
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Lawmakers from the Northwest did not agree. "This is a sellout," said Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, who vows to fight the plan. "The ratio of common sense is inversely proportional to the number of scientists and bureaucrats involved," declared Oregon's other Senator, Mark Hatfield. But it appears that Clinton will not need to submit his plan to Congress, and for that, many on Capitol Hill may be grateful. They can publicly attack the proposal for the consumption of the audience back home, deflect the heat, then quietly draw some measure of comfort from the fact that, at last, there...
...vortex, she got scant credit for her lasting contributions as First Lady, or even for being a real person behind the tautly composed image. Mostly forgotten is her expansion of the role of First Lady as foreign emissary, on her own. She loved traveling and blossomed visibly in direct ratio to the distance between her mission and the inhibitions imposed on her at home. In 1970 she warmed the frost between the U.S. and Peru when she traveled to towns destroyed by earthquakes, delivering aid and personal comfort to survivors. In West Africa in 1972 she was cheered by huge...
...College itself has only slowly been moving towards parity in the ratio of males to females: the class of 1997 will be 44 percent female, the highest percentage of women ever...
...ESPP junior tutorial has...enroll[ed] undergraduates and graduates in a two-to-one ratio," Segal wrote in the Environmental Action Committee's annual environmental audit of Harvard. "As a member of the tutorial, I can personally vouch for the fact that this unique approach is exciting and rewarding...
Money is also set aside, according to the plan, for new Arts and Sciences faculty positions, partially in order to move toward a goal of "rationalizing the curriculum...and raising the overall ratio of faculty to students" with more faculty-student contact, the document says...