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...hard-and-fast realities in an uncertain war: extended tours are wearing the troops thin. Most Marines now deploy for seven months abroad and spend seven at home, instead of the traditional 14 months back. The Army too has dropped its customary 1-to-2 ratio and extended rotations to 15 months abroad and 12 at home...
This rating is based on a combination of three factors: the ratio of quality to price with quality defined by the other set of rankings, the percentage of students receiving need-based scholarships, and the average discount given to students. In the spring of last year, Harvard announced that families earning less than $60,000 a year would no longer be expected to pay for their children to attend Harvard, and that the contributions of families with annual incomes between $60,000 and $80,000 would be reduced...
...rivals as Wolf, Thermador and France's La Cornue--should you absolutely need a professional-grade range. Viking also got dinged by low Consumer Reports ratings and persistent complaints about durability and uneven performance. Andrews says it's all relative. "Consumer Reports operates on a value-for-money ratio, and our products are never going to be in the lower-price range," he says. He points to Viking's one-year warranty on parts and labor and a five-year limited warranty on parts as proof that the company stands behind its products. That hasn't convinced Ben Collins, president...
...that can be done. A generation of enlightened teaching and robust encouragement has awakened American girls to the need for higher education. Women now outnumber men in college by a ratio of 4 to 3, and admissions officers at liberal-arts colleges are struggling to find enough males to keep their classes close to gender parity. "We've done wonderfully with girls. Now let's do the same for boys," says Gurian. One way to start might be to gear advanced training to male-dominated occupations--already the case in many female-oriented fields. Schoolteachers and librarians (roughly 70% female...
Part of preserving that culture is keeping the right ratio of experience to fresh talent. Dodge & Cox hires only one or two analysts a year. Starting in the 1980s, that became a problem as the firm began covering foreign companies. Dodge & Cox could have hired a big batch of analysts but decided not to, fearing it would wreck the apprenticeship model. "If you hire five people at the same time, they all start going to lunch together," says president Ken Olivier, a member of the U.S.-stocks committee. And as years passed, there might not have been enough promotions...