Word: ratio
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Requiring that houses maintain a proportion of men to women that is within 0.3 of the College mean ratio, the committee voted Thursday to shrink the acceptable range...
...going to allow us to narrow the ratio of men to women from some of the highs that we've had," said Catherine M. Millet, housing officer for the College...
...ratio of men to women is not really a relevant statistic," said Michaelson last night. "But the men and women who are interested...
...such a ratio prevails throughout the universe, the implications are vast. First, it would mean that there might be so much matter in the universe that the outward expansion ignited by the Big Bang would eventually be counteracted by the force of gravity. The universe would ultimately cease its expansion and begin to collapse under its own weight, imploding in a catastrophic finale that theorists have dubbed the Big Crunch. But the presence of so much dark matter also has implications for the question Alcock ponders: What is all this stuff made of? The more dark matter there...
...half in four years "a goal." Privately he understands that a true halving (in absolute dollars) would require a gasoline tax and other levies he is loath to impose. Eventually, the political trick will probably involve redefining the problem, either by 1) claiming that halving the deficit as a ratio of the debt to the gross domestic product should be considered a promise fulfilled or 2) arguing that there are different kinds of deficits, and that any funds appropriated for long-term improvements like public works projects should be viewed as welcome investments rather than as crippling and wasteful current...