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Klein questioned whether Peabody is run efficiently, and whether Harvard has sufficient control over Hunneman. He pointed out that one-third of Peabody's rent income pays for basic expenses only, a ratio appropriate for a luxury apartment according to one consultant...
...agree on its nominees. Departments with 40 or more Faculty members shall be entitled to make three nominations, those with 23 to 39 members two nominations, and those with less than 23 members one nomination. In making their nominations, departments are urged to give due weight to the ratio of tenure and non-tenure members in the department and to receive assurances of willingness to serve from all nominees. All nominations from departments must be certified by the Department Chairman and delivered to a representative of the Committee on Organization at the Faculty Club between...
Loosening Old Ties. Industrial corporations have increasingly been drawn into building and development deals by the opportunities to use borrowed money and tax advantages for an exceptionally high return on their own investment. Developers commonly borrow 90% of the funds they need to operate-a ratio that would worry executives involved only in manufacturing...
...take a long time to get a scene right. The week before one speech had been done 21 times before a take worked. (Hunter shoots on a professional ratio; from about 30,000 feet of film shot, the picture will be edited to 3000 feet...
...material in his files are research papers showing that there are Fibonacci numerical patterns in the meter of works by Virgil and other Roman poets, and Fibonacci relationships between the different sizes of mosaic patterns in the floors of Greek and Roman ruins. There are studies showing that the ratio between any two successive larger Fibonacci numbers is 1 to 1.618-the same as the ratio between the sides of the "golden rectangle," a form that is traditionally used by artists and architects to produce effects that are most pleasing...