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...forces in Europe have been inflated and musclebound, with far more logistical than combat capability." He notes that among U.S. troops with NATO in Europe, there is one general or flag officer for every 2,343 men, whereas when he served in the Army, he says, the average ratio was one colonel for every 3,000 men. Mansfield's point is that the U.S. military in Europe has grown top-heavy. "It is my conviction," he says, "that trimming away the fat in the form of excess supplies and headquarters will result in a leaner, more mobile and more...
...group of senior women demanding a one-to-one admissions ratio for Harvard and Radcliffe met yesterday to plan a Commencement protest...
Faced with a severe postwar capital famine, all industry had to borrow heavily from government-regulated banks. Even today, Japanese companies generally get more than 80% of their financing from loans and less than 20% from sale of stock?about the opposite of the ratio in the U.S. Nagano estimates that Nippon Steel's debt is equal to what four or five American steel companies would owe. To a Western executive that might seem to leave the economy extremely vulnerable to a Penn Central-type collapse. Japanese find that being in hock has its advantages: corporate Pooh-Bahs...
...lack of undergraduate inquisitors. As defined by the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities and its own statement on procedures, the CRR is not an impartial body seeking to dispense justice; it is an Administration hangman, less concerned with fairness than with efficiency, seeking not truth but a high kill-ratio...
...that much property is taxexempt. About a third of such property is owned by-and often produces profit for-governmental, religious, educational or charitable organizations. Measured by its dollar value, half or more of the real estate in Albany and Ithaca, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., is taxfree. The ratio is 33% or more in New York City, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa., and Montpelier, Vt. In a penetrating new book, The Free List (Russell Sage Foundation; $7.50), Journalist Alfred Balk argues that the exemptions have become so large, loose and inconsistent as to hurt all other property-taxpayers and the nation...