Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judges and juries and policeman cannot forget. For steps must be taken now by lawmakers and law enforce alike to reform and improve the handling of rape cases--specifically the applications of victim responsibility which often away juries--it victims are to be encouraged to testify and if the ratio of rape convictions to rapes is ever to improve...
...blood of AIDS victims has an imbalance among the cells that help govern the production of antibodies. A normal immune system has twice as many helper Tcells, which stimulate the making of antibodies, as it does suppressor Tcells, which keep antibody production under control. In an AIDS victim, the ratio may be reversed. Often there are fewer cells of both types...
...privately endowed, non-sectarian university, established in 1764 for male undergraduates, Brown became coeducational when it merged with Pembroke College in 1971. It now has an almost even ratio of men to women in its student body. The 40-acre main campus looks down on Providence from atop the city's College Hill. Most students live on the campus either in dorms or "theme" houses--which range from a Spanish language house to a holistic health house whose occupants do yoga and give massages to each other...
...also evident in the Soviet proposals to the Vienna talks on the reduction of conventional forces in Central Europe Every Soviet proposal at the Vienna talks from the opening of the negotiations in 1973 to the Warsaw Pact proposal of February, 1983 has sought to establish a 1:1 ratio between Soviet and West German military personnel in central Europe...
...dreads resumption of the single life: "The old New York ratio going against me... packs of Amazons roaming the streets ... for someone genuinely eligible and self-supporting who didn't mind a little cellulite." She wonders how she failed: perhaps her breasts were too small, or "Maybe we just ran out of things to renovate." The motivations hardly matter. When little Nathaniel is born prematurely, his mother bitterly acknowledges the truth: "Something was dying inside...