Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Large athletic blocking groups, however, contribute to the skewed ratio of men to women in Currier, Sandoval says...
BALANCE Budget Director Leon Panetta once said he would shoot for a ratio of $2 in spending cuts to every $1 in tax increases. Clinton's lieutenants have been unable to find that much spending to cut, though, and are now striving just for "balance." Moreover, they may be able to get a 1-to-1 ratio only by playing semantic games: labeling as "spending cuts" what are really tax increases on heavily subsidized Social Security recipients, people who take home-mortgage deductions on their income taxes and others. Social Security taxes, for example, are counted against spending on pensions...
While Mather's incoming sophomore class last year fell within the accepted range, its senior class displayed a grossly disproportionate ratio of 2.4 men to every woman...
...doesn't have to be a large exodus. It only takes a few people transferring to change the ratio," she said...
...Winthrop House, the senior class has 2.3 men to each woman while the junior class has more women than men, a ratio of 0.8 men to each woman...