Word: ratio
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Liberal and conservative experts alike criticized the high ratio of warheads to launchers that the proposal would produce. Each side would end up with an ICBM force made up largely of stationary multiple-warhead missiles such as the MX and SS-18. While in their silos, they would be sitting ducks, vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike; once in the air, they might be first-strike weapons. Therefore the incentive of each side to shoot first in a crisis would be increased, and the stability of the nuclear balance would be upset...
...tempt nor threaten a pre-emptive attack. Thus, while START was in tended to enhance the case for the MX by increasing the ratio of warheads to launchers and by putting a premium on large MlRVed missiles, it inadvertently increased opposition to the big missile in Congress and instead spurred development of the "Midgetman": an entirely new ICBM, a small, single-warhead alternative to the large MlRVed...
...enter the Houses only as a date or a tutee. The trolls hidden in the entrance walls signed us in. We blotted up the house stereotypes but we all had friends who were exceptions. We were arrogant probably and could afford to be--we had such a choice! The ratio of men to women seemed about...
Acceptances were sent to 1,297 males and 932 females making the male female ratio 1.42 to 1. Last year's ratio...
...that the majority of these atrocities are perpetrated by the security forces and the army, and only a minority can be attributed to the guerrillas. In 1983, she claims, there were 5,142 civilian victims of acts blamed on the security forces and 67 blamed on the guerrillas, a ratio of 76 to 1. In January and February, there was a decrease. But is not that just a tactic to create an illusion of authentic elections to please the U.S. and meet American demands? After showing me some gruesome photos of decapitated bodies, people missing limbs, others disfigured by acid...