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...thousand six hundred seventeen freshmen--concentrated in an over-crowded Yard and boasting the lowest male-female ratio in Harvard Radcliffe history--will descend upon Memorial Hall today to affirm their status as paid-in-full undergraduates...
...company earnings is no longer worth as much on the price of that company's stock as it used to be. Even in late 1976, the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average were selling at a price of 10.4 times earnings; the estimated price-earnings ratio for 1977 is less than eight. Avco, Chrysler and Rapid American shares are selling at only about three times earnings...
Whereas the ratio of men to women in Harvard Yard has for the past few years been close to 3:1, this year, with all freshmen housed there, it will be just below 2:1. Nevertheless, that first year is often a difficult one for women, who at times find themselves overwhelmed by the numbers of men. While Moses says he considers the freshman class a single unit of about 1600 students, and not one divided by sex, he does not foresee any particular problems in dealing with the women's situation. After all, he points out, in his four...
...Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers has been rating U.S.-made air conditioners, using the Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER), since 1974. On a scale advancing from a poor five to an excellent eleven, the EER evaluates the air conditioner's ability to produce the largest amount of cooling with the smallest amount of electricity. The EER tests show that the industry is indeed capable of producing machines that would meet strict new federal requirements; one of the main features of a more efficient unit is a large set of condensers and evaporator coils. But these machines are relatively bulky...
...aggression. Too little, and the organism may be muscled out by competitors. Too much, and it may die in battle without reproducing, or use up time and energy in fighting while competitors steal its food or mate. Aggression, in other words, pays off only when the cost-benefit ratio makes it a workable strategy...