Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pool of women applicants has grown steadily, and the ratio of males to females in entering classes has become smaller since the Faculty adopted the equal access policy...
...noted that some departments--such as History--have such an overweighted tutorial student-to-faculty ratio that the proposal would require them to drastically revamp faculty commitments, while the ratios in others--such as Psychology and Social Relations--are close to the proposed quota right...
...innumerable lively open-air cafes, where it seems the majority of Tunisian men spend the majority of their waking hours, are exclusively male territory. The sex ratio of the audience at movies is not very different from that at the cafes. Few women are seen in public places without some errand to attend to; they are either shopping or walking briskly or waiting for a bus, protected under a safsari and bags and bundles...
...Rhodesia, 3,000 are based just outside the borders and thousands more are undergoing training in neighboring countries. The government's defense effort has benefited from the performance of several predominantly black counterinsurgency units, like the Selous Scouts, a Rhodesian version of the Green Berets. Nonetheless, the "kill ratio" of the Rhodesian forces over the guerrillas has dropped in recent months from 10 to 1 to about 5 to 1, and the Rhodesians are losing men at three times the rate of a year ago. Says a security officer somberly: "We simply cannot afford to take casualties...
...strained peace emerged between the forces of Mao and those of Chiang during which thousands of left-leaning intellectuals went to join the Communists in Yenan. The ratio of men to women was about 18 to 1, writes Witke. Some of the Communist soldiers who had lost or abandoned their wives during the Long March formed "local liaisons. " But most were too young or poor for this and were urged by their commanders, in Witke's words, "not to dissipate their virility on sex and their money on prostitutes." In this puritanical atmosphere, the newcomers from the cities - many...