Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real goals of the campaign was to add Faculty members so that we could improve the student-Faculty ratio and so that we could add to the breadth and depth of subject matters that the Faculty can study," Smith said...
...might as well shell out a few extra bucks for credit insurance, which covers your debts in case of an accident or loss of job, right? Wrong. That, at least, was the conclusion of a Consumers Union report out last week, which said that credit insurance, judging by the ratio of benefits paid out to the cost of premiums, is largely a rip-off, bilking customers out of $2 billion a year. Many life- and homeowner's-insurance policies provide the same level of coverage, so put your wallet away...
...irrational and often contrary to one's moral and social duties. No culture in history has valued romantic love like our own, and yet there is every indication that this has not made for happier families or for more selfless individuals. The ancient Romans had the motto dux vitae ratio ("reason is the guide of life"). The claim that love can justify anything amounts to unconditional surrender before our own fickle passions and to the rejection of everything that moral thought should stand for. Alejandro Jenkins '01 is a physics and mathematics concentrator in Currier House...
...need not evolutionary but revolutionary change to public education," Gore said. He said the government should hire more teachers and reduce the national student-teacher ratio...
...media," Soffer explains, meaning items like the sharpened stones that can serve as spearheads, rather than softer, biodegradable goods like baskets, fabrics and nets. But in archaeologically well-preserved prehistoric sites, such as those found underwater or in dry caves, the soft goods predominate over the durable by a ratio of about 20 to 1. If the hard stuff was the work of men, then "we've been missing the children, the women, the old people," she asserts. Thanks to Soffer's sharp eye, Paleolithic net hunting is no longer invisible, and in net hunting, Soffer says, "everybody participates...