Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same 200-125 margin, the Faculty rejected the CEP's proposal, which would have made individual ROTC courses apply for credit within existing departments. The other ROTC resolution presented--an SDS-supported plan to expel ROTC from Harvard--lost on a voice vote by a large 8-1 ratio...
...only do sting-ray tactics unsettle the Communists, U.S. commanders in Viet Nam claim, but they also keep down casualties better than the defensive war that some critics would prefer the U.S. to fight now. A recent study shows that the ratio of Communist to U.S. casualties is 12-1 when U.S. troops take the initiative. When they remain in defensive enclaves, the ratio drops to 3-1. Those figures may have an "illusionary nature" too, but they doubtless have some basis in fact. Sting rays also keep the Communists away from cities and reduce civilian casualties, Saigon argues...
...Goodrich, the nation's fourth largest rubber company, was taking a rather bumpy ride. Last year it earned only 3.9% on its $1.1 billion sales, lowest profit margin among the Big Four. Goodrich was obviously vulnerable to takeover because its ownership was widely scattered and the price-earnings ratio of its shares was relatively modest. It was not long before Goodrich began to draw the attention of a number of acquisitive companies, including Northwest. Goodrich Chairman Ward Keener, a onetime economics professor, began mapping defensive strategies as early as last June...
...growing stable of muscle cars has given insurance executives a bad case of nerves. Neal E. Mann, executive secretary of the Independent Automobile Damage Appraisers Association, has proposed that cars be rated according to the six factors that contribute to acceleration-engine size, number of carburetor barrels, compression ratio, weight, pounds per horsepower and axle ratio. One Pennsylvania-based company, the Erie Insurance Exchange, already uses the horsepower-weight ratio to take the temperature of a prospective car and refuses to write new policies on any that register "hot." As Mann told a group of insurers in a speech...
Turnaround. Only two of the eight leaders-the average manufacturing work-week and prices of industrial materials-are still rising. The other six point down. Among them are the pace of nonfarm hiring, the ratio of prices to manufacturing labor costs, and stock prices as measured by the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. The stock indicator does, however, show a rise for April. Overly excited by European political events and peace prospects in Viet Nam, investors sent the 500 up by 2.28 points last week to close at 104; the narrower Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials...