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Word: ratios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students were majoring in business." Communications studies suffered the same fate. Concurrently, Rollins revived its classics programs--Latin, Greek, languages, literature--and built a well-stocked new library. Results have been fast and favorable. Applications, despite an upcoming tuition of $8,591, have reached a 5-to-1 ratio for every freshman spot, while enrollment has been held to 1,370. And Rollins' still well-tanned but much more serious graduates have come into demand: last year every one of its medical-dental school candidates was accepted. Claims Spokesman Ober Tyus: "Rollins is the pre- eminent small liberal arts college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Hot Colleges on the Climb | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...ratio of guys to girls [in the `confer'] is 8:1," said Jun. "So whenever a girl gets on, she gets a lot of mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

...dinner and then I go to my QRA sectionn. I'm real nervous and sweatin right because we're gettin our mid-terms back. Alright, I got a C-! (Is that a high C-ratio Chuck?) anyways, I go back to my room for our nightly quarters game that we have every night. That's somethin' that I'm really good...

Author: By Grant Blair, | Title: Don't Point the Finger at Me | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...CELEBRITY Objection. Most people have a celebrity ratio of about one-to-one. That is, they are recognized by approximately as many people as they recognize. Some people have very high C-ratios: these famous folks are recognized by many more people than they recognize...

Author: By Charlest T. Kurzman, | Title: Pointing the 'Big Finger' | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...symbol" economy of financial flows outweighs the "real" world economy of traded goods and services by a ratio of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World in Flux: Drucker dissects global change | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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