Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor-student ratio is very advantageous for the students [in the German department]," he said. "The cards seem to be stacked against...
...have never been asked whether we want to be American," she said. And the ratio of 30 tourists to each native Hawaiian is, she said, unacceptable...
...their acts with gimmicky stage props or too many cohorts (e.g., Nas, Wu-Tang). Or they repeat their tracks with genuine energy, but without anything you couldn't find in their albums (e.g., almost every other act you know). Futhermore, the crowd is forever a 5,000-one male/female ratio, and if the show's not on a college campus (or sometimes even so), somebody's bound to have beef with somebody else--maybe even you, if you're scrawny enough or you're flossing too much...
...earlier glories. So one should not, perhaps, expect too much from this show. In any case, it bears only the slightest proportional relation to the bewildering and dense variety of works of art that are to be seen in the whole fabric of San Francesco--about the same ratio, you might say, that a crumb of saint's bone in one of its reliquaries does to the whole body...
...blended polished professionalism and colloquial surprises together for a fluid and captivating show. A 500-strong committee picked the 172 nominees who were voted into stardom by an equally-weighted combination of industry and public ballots. Considering that there were only 41 awards to present, the performer-to-award ratio was palpable. There was too much celebrity to congratulate. It was up to the audience to lap up the overflow...