Word: ratios
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...absence of mobility opportunities and the low level of political institutionalization in most modernizing countries produce a correlation between social frustration and political instability. One analysis identified 26 countries with a low ratio of want formation to want satisfaction and hence low "systemic frustration" and 36 countries with a high ratio and hence high "systemic frustration." Of the 26 satisfied societies, only six (Argentina, Belgium, France, Lebanon, Morocco, and the Union of South Africa) hid high degrees of political instability. Of the 36 dissatisfied countries, only two (Philippines, Tunisia) had high levels of political stability. The overall correlation between frustration...
...threat that their missiles pose to our deterrent. We tell / them that we're going to protect not our population but our deterrent, and that we're willing to negotiate on deployment of a defensive system if the Soviets reduce their big, most threatening missiles and reduce the ratio of their warheads to our deterrent forces...
...designated hitter -- compete, in aggregate, in eight statistical categories over the course of the 162-game regular season. The winning team is the one with the highest totals in each category: batting average, home runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, wins, saves, earned-run average, and the ratio of hits plus walks to innings pitched...
Bryn Mawr College may have to eliminate most of its graduate programs, cut back some student services, and increase its enrollment and its student-teacher ratio in order to overcome a financial crisis in which the school is slowly eating into its endowment, administrators said this week...
...Army, for example, is developing lightly equipped divisions for quick deployment. Even more disturbing are signs that the Marines have begun to imitate some of the top-heavy characteristics of the other services: 30 years ago there was one enlisted Marine officer for every two grunts; now the ratio is 1 to 1. Less than one-third of the troops in each Marine division now have combat jobs, and the ratio of desk jobs to field jobs for lieutenant colonels is 9 to 1. Because of this shift from "tooth" to "tail," what is supposed to be a streamlined strike...