Word: ratio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Monti played one of the best all-around halves of her career against Dartmouth last year when she had four field goals and four assists in the first period. This year, she had five assists to just one turnover--far and away her best ratio of the season...
...been a rough few weeks for supporters of school vouchers. First came the Election Day defeat of ballot initiatives in California and Michigan that would have created statewide programs that return tax dollars to parents who send their kids to private schools. These measures fell by a ratio of more than 2 to 1, despite multimillion-dollar campaigns by wealthy voucher proponents. Then last week, in a verdict with nationwide consequences, a federal appeals court ruled that the voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio, violates the constitutional separation of church and state...
Chaudhuri focuses much of his novel on Jayojit's observations of the seemingly mundane details of life in Calcutta. Jayojit dutifully recounts the shifts in the dollar-rupee ratio and vividly describes the different saris worn by all the women he sees. He is as entranced by the noise of car horns on the street as he is by the religious rituals of his parents' neighbors. These snippets of life in India that Chaudhuri gives us through his account of Jayojit's wanderings are sometimes moving, sometimes simply mundane. But these observations in fact provide the key to Jayojit...
...assist to turnover ratio needs to be turned to a positive number," Sullivan said...
...would improve not only the student-faculty ratio but also advising, and would also permit more first-years to take freshman seminars--a big academic priority, Rudenstine said...