Word: ratio
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...coronary health of 5,000 people in the Massachusetts town, offers this prescription for regression: reduce the level of total cholesterol below 150 mg per deciliter of blood and the level of LDL, the bad form of cholesterol that clogs arteries, below 90. In addition, says Castelli, the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL, the good cholesterol that helps clear arteries, should be less than...
...readers, any lasting shortfall in advertising leads to a reduction in news coverage. Most publications maintain a more or less fixed ratio between advertising pages and editorial pages, permitting short-term variations but cutting news space and staff if a slump persists. While few papers have scaled down as drastically as the Register, which is also burdened with a reported $200 million in takeover debt, cuts or hiring freezes have come at papers that were faltering even in better times, including the Denver Post, Dallas Times- Herald and Oakland Tribune...
...Jooooe! Duuuude! Howya dooooin?" Joe is not doing so well. Joe has a 12-page paper due in 12 hours. Interruptions disturb Joe's meticulously scheduled page-per-hour ratio...
...faculty ought to be much bigger," he said. "The student-faculty ratio is rather awful...
...takeover artists, the British leave everybody in the dust. Sizing up overseas opportunities is a talent that seems to come naturally to British businessmen, for whom Canada is often closer than Calais. British companies typically invest $1 on acquisitions abroad for every $3 they spend at home, an astonishing ratio considering that the equivalents for France and Japan, runners-up in the takeover league, are 1 to 16 and 1 to 79 respectively. A survey of cross-border takeovers by KPMG Peat Marwick accountants last year showed that British companies spent four times as much on foreign takeovers as their...