Word: ratio
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...hopes to expand the boundaries of the Medical Area, which the hospital and the MHPC set in 1976. Also, BWH wants to exceed a local ordinance limiting the ratio between the floor space of the tower and the land it rests...
Caedmon, the largest spoken-word recording producer in the nation, tapes on a different track. Famous for its early renditions of literary giants and its 33 Shakespeare plays, the 30-year-old company sold one tape for every ten records in 1971. Now the ratio is 1 to 1 for its nearly 1,000 titles. Caedmon rarely offers complete books, but concentrates on authors reading in their own voices: William Faulkner rushing over the magnificent rhythms of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in a high, fast drawl; Robert Lowell stridently brave in poems about his mental illness; Ernest Hemingway growling...
...vice president of the Citadel. "We didn't alter a thing." Academically that is true. What most of the five schools did do, however, was to sell prospective students and parents harder on the traditional virtues of the small, all-male college. Among them: a teacher-student ratio of 12 to 1 or better, a conservative curriculum (Hampden-Sydney was the last U.S. college to drop its classical language requirement) and sport programs in which, as W. & L. Admissions Director Bill Hartog puts it, "you don't have to weigh 250 pounds and run a four-second...
More than 300 years ago, Racine wrote I that a province of southern France could support 20 caterers, while a bookseller would starve to death. Today the ratio is probably reversed, if only because, grâce à dieu, cookbooks have largely replaced caterers. More than a gastronomic manual or a compilation of recipes, a well-made cookbook blends strands of history, geography and philosophy with dollops of legend and even a dash of the unsavory. This is particularly true of regional cookbooks, which have come into their own in recent years as increasingly sophisticated home chefs look beyond...
...tutors for its eight students. This year, all of the tutorials taught by junior faculty--and these are a majority--have only one tutor for the same number of students. Sophomores were never informed of a reason for this over-the-summer halving of the tutor-tutee ratio, but the administration's failure to adequately fund Social Studies may have played a part...