Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Analysts are most concerned about a stock's price-earnings ratio-that is, its price relative to earnings per share expected in the current year. Professionals tend to assign rather low P-E ratios to companies with profits that are rising only as fast as the U.S. economy's gross national product. Thus, the Dow-Jones industrials now have P-E ratios averaging less than 17 to 1, down from 21 to 1 just before the 1962 market break. Analysts give much more generous P-Es-50 to 1, or more-to companies with profits that rise faster...
...some mixers the girl-to-boy ratio was twenty-to-one," Watson said. "Many, many girls arrive by the busload, wait for hours to get in, and then are left high-and-dry because there are not enough boys to go around," he added, "and this causes much ill-will...
Because not all decisions affect students to the same extent, and because various issues require different types of experience and training, it would be unwise to maintain the same student-faculty ratio on all committees. In fact, the ratio could vary between the policy decisions (which should always include student opinion) and the day-to-day operation of any one committee. The Admissions Committee, for example, should have student members when deciding policy issues, but would probably require an in-ordinate amount of time from any student attempting to participate in the entire admissions process. To illustrate the manner...
...another step long overdue: they are giving more jobs-and more responsible jobs-to non-American executives. As recently as 1965, according to a survey by University of Manchester Professor Kenneth Simmonds, only 59 Europeans were among the 3,733 executives in Europe for 150 U.S. companies. Now the ratio is changing rapidly. The Earl of Cromer, for instance, until recently governor of the Bank of England, is the new chairman of IBM United Kingdom. Dr. Frederick H. Boland, the man who as United Nations General Assembly President broke a gavel in 1960 trying to silence Nikita Khrushchev, is chairman...
...side demonstrates clear military or political superiority and the other side seeks to protect what it still has. The Communists are hurting badly in the field and at home. They are losing more than four men for every one lost by the allies-in some recent actions the ratio is more than ten to one-and they are expending troops so extravagantly as to suggest an element of desperation...