Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gibed, "Is this my high profile or my low profile?" His aides argued that Mondale's less prominent role was in fact intended to make him more valuable to Carter. Said one of Mondale's associates: "For a Vice President, there's an almost inverse ratio between effectiveness and visibility." From the outset of the Carter Administration, Mondale -one of the two insiders in the White House (the other: James Schlesinger) with broad national and Washington experience-has been a trusted adviser. Explained he: "That takes a tremendous amount of time listening, learning, working, talking in-house...
Significantly, the FTC found Blue Cross maintained its lowest ratio of hospital days per 1000 members where HMOs have the greatest share of the market. The implication drawn by the report is that Blue Cross did indeed respond to HMO competition by including preventive care in their packages and thus keeping their members out of hospitals...
...limiting the space Harvard would have to build another dormitory. But Hill says the University is still considering construction of another dormitory in the vicinity of Putnam Ave. With the possibility of a full-merger between Harvard and Radcliffe and the fulfillment of a one-to-one undergraduate sex ratio in mind. "We haven't yet excluded the possibility of building in front of Putnam Ave.," Hill says. In fact, he adds, if Harvard builds another House, it will probably be on University property near the down-zoned parcel...
...academic year. Moreover, Radcliffe's insistence on applying for Work-Study funding apart from Harvard largely accounts for the disturbing fact that Harvard's Work-Study grant--$610,000 for this year--is over four times larger than Radcliffe's $145,000 grant, even though the undergraduate male: female ratio is considerably smaller...
...several dozen school department tape recorders. The department spends close to $7 million on custodial salaries, despite the findings of several studies recommending a more economical contracting service. This waste cannot be blamed on an inadequate bureaucracy; 396 administrators work in the central office, creating the highest administrator student ratio of any major urban system in the country...