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Under SALT n about 5,000 Soviet land-based warheads would be aimed at 1,054 American launchers-a ratio of less than 5 to 1. The Eureka proposal would reduce the permitted warheads to 2,500 on at most 400 launchers. Even were it technically feasible to distribute warheads in this manner (and the Soviets would have to redesign their entire strategic force to do so), this would give the side striking first an advantage in warheads to targets of better than 6 to 1. And at these lower numbers of launchers an attack would be far more calculable...
...judges and juries and policemen cannot forget. For steps must be taken now by lawmakers and law-enforcers alike to reform and improve the handling of rape cases--specifically, the implications of victim-responsibility which often sway juries--if victims are to be encouraged to testify and if the ratio of rape convictions to rapes is ever to improve...
...performance. No doubt the new M-1 tank, at least on paper, is faster and more powerful than the M-60 tank now in use. But the same amount of money could buy three times as many of the reliable M-60s as the problem-plagued M1s, a ratio that might strike battle commanders as quite attractive. Sprey, the former Pentagon official, argues that this type of numerical gain could come by buying cheaper rather than superexpensive weapons for a variety of specific missions...
...make her time at Harvard-Radcliffe a very productive one. That means not only academics but also future plans and goals. The help undergraduate women accomplish these goals, RUS needs a more active constituency. This could best be achieved by working towards one representative to 50 undergraduate women ratio in all the houses as well as in the yard...
...result of a commission. Consequently, his pieces all look as if they were made to the scale of one man. This fact bears on the alertness with which his work addresses the spectator. "Most of my sculpture is personal, needs response in close proximity and the human ratio," he said. Smith wanted to focus the image, make it speak to one pair of eyes, one mind at a time, as precisely and, there being no other word for the moral undercurrent of his work, as earnestly as possible. Hardly any Smith is more than ten feet high or wide...