Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...rate. Five years ago, the Brazilian government began heavily subsidizing construction of new sugar distilleries to encourage the switch from crude to cane. As production of alcohol increased, new service-station pumps popped up around the country. At first, most of them dispensed gasohol, which was mixed at a ratio of 80% gasoline to 20% alcohol and could be used by regular car engines. But in the past year, some 2,000 stations have begun selling undiluted alcohol...
...older chickens of egg-laying age, and quick-frozen for shipment to stores. The result is a bird that has the size and flavor of a mature chicken but the tenderness of a much younger one. An added bonus: like all turkeys, Churkey has a higher meat-to-bone ratio than chickens...
...qualifications of the B-school's female student body: "The profile of women is now more accurately mirroring the profile of the Harvard Business School population. But despite substantial improvement in women's qualifications, women continue to apply in fewer numbers than men. To equalize the 5 to 1 ratio would require a concerted recruiting effort--one it is not clear the Business School is willing to make...
...been only 17 years since the first women entered the two-year MBA program. Since then, the number of women among the 775 students admitted each year has increased steadily--going from 32 in 1970 to 178 in 1980. Still, the present ratio of nearly five men to every woman attending the school means that women continue to be an oddity within the ivy-covered walls. Business school officials say that until recently a shortage of qualified applicants limited the number of women who could be admitted. But this shortage was itself a result of discrimination. The qualifications looked...
...After all, if they are not done, the public gets the wrong perception of the President, that he is behind the walls of the West Wing of the White House and he does not want to meet the people. But if you look at it from a cost-benefit ratio of time spent, he ought to be spending his time on the business that just keeps flowing in and out of the Oval Office...