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...increased number of students is not a measure of the quality of the Department; a greater number of students who were accepted this year in an effort to make up a budget deficit. The ratio of teachers to students has decreased. The number of experienced teachers in Planning has decreased," he continued...
Mann said that while the faculty-student ratio is half of what it was three years ago (10 to 1 as opposed to 5 to 1), "the ratio will improve next year when we increase the faculty to catch up with the increased number of students...
...study of female adolescent suicide based chiefly on 750 case histories confirms that impression. Among those who try to kill themselves and fail, says Boston University Psychologist Pamela Cantor, girls outnumber boys 9 to 1; among those who succeed, boys are in the majority by a 3-to-l ratio...
...Wide Awake and The Martyr's Blood Will Not Go Wasted. The propaganda was accompanied by a totally unrealistic picture of the war. At one point, government spokesmen claimed that Pakistan had knocked out 123 Indian aircraft to a loss of seven of their own, a most unlikely kill ratio of nearly 18 to l. Islamabad insisted that Pakistani forces were still holding on to the city of Jessore even though newsmen rode into the city only hours after its liberation...
...production, the strikes will have important consequences for the trading relationship between the U.S. and Europe. Reason: labor costs are rising more sharply in most of Europe than in America. At Volkswagen, wages rose 6% in 1969, 15% in 1970 and another 16% this year. At Daimler-Benz, the ratio of labor costs to total sales has climbed from 21% to 26% in the past decade. Historically, in European industry's competition for world markets, its lower wages have counteracted the U.S.'s higher productivity, which is a result of many factors, including the quantity and quality...