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...first-year advising system at Yale, as well as his experience as a non-resident advisor and as an Allston Burr senior tutor in Quincy House, suggests that he will be receptive to first-years' advising concerns. Indeed, Browne has already expressed interest in increasing the advisor-student ratio...
Although Browne has correctly put a finger on the first step to improving first-year advising, increasing the ratio is just the first of several improvements the FDO should implement. Currently, the majority of first-years are advised by their proctors. These proctors do not often share the same academic interests as their proctees, but they do live in the same entryway as the students they advise...
Gardner projected by the year 2005, the ratio of classic national security spending such as defense budgets to "new" national security will be 16 to 1, a formula which he said will prove to be "self-destructive...
These days, though, Coelho's ratio of mishaps to successes seems to be on the rise. Consider the Elian Gonzalez matter. Although Gore had distanced himself from the Clinton Administration from the outset of the controversy by saying it should be handled in family court, sources say his top advisers--primarily Coelho, but with backing from message gurus Carter Eskew and Bob Shrum--urged him to take a higher profile by calling for permanent residency for the Cuban boy. Coelho was out front in arguing that the move would bolster Gore's chances of carrying Florida--the nation's fourth...
...owed three or four other credit cards $3,000, to $4,000, to $5,000. They were already $15,000 in debt, and the banks continued to raise [the family's] credit limits because they are making the minimum payments. Once a family is over 30% debt-to-income ratio, it should stop using unsecured credit. But people don't know that. They think that because they've been approved for this higher credit limit, they can manage it." Because many people pay only the minimum amount due or a few dollars more, Fox says, they think everything is fine...