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...monstrous homer two years ago in St. Louis off of John Tudor in extra innings to keep the Mets in the Pennant race. Or his homer in Game Seven of the 1986 World Series? Last year, Strawberry had 27 regular-season round-trippers and finished third in homerun ratio (he had 5.68 homeruns for every 100 at bats). The Phillips's Mike Schmidt finished, but can you name the other slugger who topped Strawberry's mark...
...West should not be too quick to denigrate the military value of boars, given their proven effectiveness. Let's look at the incident from a tactical point of view; talk about cost effectiveness, and talk about cost effectiveness, and talk about a great kill ratio. And for the best part--can you think of any red-blooded American boar who wouldn't have gladly done the same to a Soviet MiG, given the opportunity...
...addition, the College's quota system may have affected which houses went random. The quotas require that the ratio of sophomore men to women be between 1:1 and 2:1. If a house had reached its quota for male or female sophomores, the computer would only accept members of the opposite...
Because of the approximate seven-to-three ratio of men to women among B-Schoolers, such connections are necessary. "Last week, to make the party really move [at a Friday night B-School gathering that featured four kegs and a band] we had to advertise at Wellesley [to invite women]," Ambro says...
Amica has not strayed into commercial lines of insurance, choosing to remain focused on individual-customer care. The firm never advertises and relies on referrals for most of its customers. It employs no independent agents and hires its own adjusters and underwriters. The company's unusually high ratio of 1 employee for each 140 clients allows it to meet high performance standards, like routinely answering all customer mail within a day of receipt. Amica tries to respond to claims in the same speedy manner. The company's adjusters have been known to take extraordinary pains to assist clients in duress...