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Leiderman said that a 1:1 admissions policy would require that the number of males admitted be reduced from the present 2:5:1 ratio, unless the college were to be significantly expanded...
...biggest need in Cambridge is for low income family housing because not a single unit has been built in the last 20 years," he added. Liev said MIT should have constructed an equal ratio of family and elderly housing...
...program could be a vast improvement over current conditions and would deal only with selected violent offenders, not for all "troublemakers" of all kinds. A useful model suggested in the report for this approach we found at the small security treatment center at Middletown, Connecticut where staff-inmate ratio is high, treatment programs are developed before inmates are admitted, the size is small, and there is no prison-like atmosphere...
Associates of Perot privately concede that Walston is in trouble but argue that it is not so bad off as rumors would have it. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that the firm's ratio of total indebtedness to net capital was about 6 to 1 in December, compared with only a 3-to-l ratio on Nov. 30. Under New York Stock Exchange rules, member firms may not have more than $15 in debts for every $1 in capital. If the ratio becomes as high as 10 to 1, the N.Y.S.E. prohibits the firm from expanding. Although...
Students also objected to the seven-to-four faculty-student ratio, and, all other considerations aside, to the existence of a special body for disciplining political demonstrators...