Word: ratios
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Because of the technological revolution, one farmer in the U.S. now feeds 59 people. Elsewhere, the ratio of total population to the number of farmers and farm laborers is 19.2 in Western Europe, 13.7 in Japan, a mere 10 in the Soviet Union. U.S. agriculture feeds people well and cheaply too. The average American intake of more than 3,000 calories per day is among the highest in the world, and though citizens of some other nations match the U.S. in calories, probably none do in variety of diet...
...constitution calls for one representative per 50 undergraduate women, but this ratio will not be met after the current election. However, Jennifer R. Levin '80, RUS president, said Wednesday she is confident that the vacancies will be filled by the end of the semester...
...members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union voted down the contract by a 5-to-4 ratio and then decided by voice vote to authorize a strike at a two-hour meeting, a kitchen worker who asked to remain unidentified said yesterday...
...Jewett maintains that Harvard admissions is doing "about all it can under the present system" to attract minority applicants, he admits he is not satisfied with the results. "I don't like to set numbers but to the degree that you have an imaginary total I would hope the ratio (of minorities) in the College would approximate the ratio in the country...
...brink of a serious "bachelor bulge." Tucked away in a few paragraphs of a 100-page government study is startling information: in the 20-to 24-year age group, British males now outnumber females by 1.3 million to 789,000. In the prime marriage years, 20 to 34, the ratio is even more lop sided: there are 800,000 extra males. For the rest of the century, women will hold the upper hand in the marriage mart. Says Government Demographer Eugene Grebenik: "Women will not have to be so worried about being 'left on the shelf because they will...