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Under one suggestion members would be selected according to areas of concentration, years of study in the Graduate School, and the teaching fellow-graduate student ratio. Another proposal would have representatives selected in proportion to the ratio of members of the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union to non-members...
...commission also cracked down on the distressingly large number of companies that, it says, have been supplying it with suspicious-looking data or none at all. Under its complex rules, price boosts must not increase a company's profit margin-its ratio of earnings to sales-above that of a pre-control base period. To enforce that rule, the commission had ordered that 2,954 companies file profit-margin reports by last week. Nearly 1,600 failed...
...than men to gain admission to college." This may or may not be true in given instances; in the case of Stanford, which you cited, it is not true. Our present enrollment target of 550 women and 900 men in a freshman class is not significantly unrepresentative of the ratio of women to men applicants for admission (1 to 2) in recent years. Moreover, while the women applicants are every bit as academically qualified as the men applicants, it is simply not the case that the women are more qualified academically...
...million. Compared with the endowments of universities, Father Flanagan's Boys Home Foundation Fund would rank No. 8, behind Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the University of Chicago, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell. Boys Town has about $286,000 in endowment for each boy; the university with the highest endowment/student ratio is Cal Tech, at a mere...
...scarcity but uneven distribution. In South Dakota, for example, there is only one internist for every 12,813 people. In 18 states, there is only one pediatrician for each 20,000. Obstetrician-gynecologists are also unevenly distributed; while the national median is 1 to 11,915, the ratio in ten states is only 1 to 20,000. There is also some overabundance, for example, one general surgeon for every 7,554 people in the U.S. today. (By contrast, the optimum general-surgeon-to-population ratio in prepaid group health plans ranges from...