Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consequences of some cutbacks are less obvious, more insidious. The University of Maryland and the University of Massachusetts have cut library expenses and subscriptions to academic journals and postponed maintenance on buildings. They have trimmed back on teaching assistants, shaved the overall ratio of professors to students. "You can't see the damage now," says Sherry Penney, chancellor of U. Mass's Boston campus, "but in five years there will be no journals in the library, the best people will have left, the infrastructure will be falling apart...
...Clinton's denials stick, what might the voters' reaction be? On the night before Gary Hart's 1987 withdrawal from the Democratic race, a TIME poll found that by a ratio of roughly 10 to 1, people were more troubled by Hart's lying than by his extramarital relations. How many people would reject Clinton if he were seen as telling the hard truth is anyone's guess. Some, perhaps too many for Clinton's sake, will apply a double standard that forgives adultery generally but still determines that a President is a role model from whom perfection should...
...turnover-to-assist ratio problem has not been resolved either. At the end of last season, the Crimson had 354 assists and 401 turnovers...
...Cambridge has over one and one-half times the number of pouring licenses which a city of its size would be authorized to issue...the ratio of licenses to population served is higher for Harvard Square and its adjacent neighborhoods," the letter states...
...Harvard men's basketball team, the turnover-to-assist ratio was the single greatest problem former coach Peter Roby had to deal with...