Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS argument is based on the assumption that the ratio of educated volunteers to total volunteers is a constant. It isn't. The Armed Forces may be attracting more volunteers, but it isn't necessarily attracting more, qualified volunteers. That's why there is continuing pressure to lower standards, to teach weapons to deal with illiterates rather than the other way around...
...candidates include 46 men and 38 women--the reverse of last year's 45 women and 34 men. Victor A. Koivemaki III '68 associate director of classes and reunions for the Harvard Alumni Association, said that the ratio of men to women has been approaching one-to-one in recent years...
...state primary two years ago, according to election records, 1,211,217 Democrats voted, compared with 190.879 Republicans, a more than six-to-one ratio. In Cambridge, Democratic registration has out numbered Republican registration by eight...
...Majority official, says he has indeed been "fishing for conservatives in church waters." The white vote, however, is no solid bloc of fundamentalists, and some backlash seems possible. The Darden poll asked about a hypothetical endorsement by Moral Majority Founder Jerry Falwell, who is campaigning for Reagan. By a ratio of 3 to 1, Southerners said they would be less likely to support a candidate endorsed by Falwell...
...difficult, the maximum score of 10 does not mean perfection so much as it means a better and harder performance than the previous competitor's. For that reason, the order in which gymnasts compete is crucial: coaches send out their lineups of six team members in inverse ratio to their accomplishment. The weakest competitor in a given event goes first, and his score becomes the base with which the rest are compared. If the first scores well and the second a bit better, the judges' scores ratchet up until, finally, the top performer goes out last in hopes...