Word: ratio
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...expect Delaware to do anything to tamper with this profitable business line. The state's division of corporate services recently boasted it spent just $12 million to earn $700 million - a quarter of the state's annual revenue. That enviable cost-revenue ratio has triggered copycat competitors. It couldn't be easier. Apply online - providing less ID than it would take to get a library card - and have it all processed within 24 hours, for little more than $100; Nevada and Delaware will do it all in an hour for $1,000. Then, for modest fees, enjoy the illusion...
...report adds to the ongoing scientific debate over how to define ideal weight in adults and whether the widely used measure of weight categories - body mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat based on a ratio of weight and height - is equally useful for all age groups. The World Health Organization defines normal weight as a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2; overweight is defined as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 kg/m2. A BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese, and under 18.5 underweight...
...Santander to cut back-office staff drastically (Santander never cuts the flesh pressers out front). In Abbey's case, total employees dropped from 25,331 to 16,489, while costs have come down from 70% of income to around 40%, in line with Santander's overall cost-to-income ratio. The average cost-to-income ratio in this sector of the U.K. banking business is 55%. Those cost savings translate into lower lending rates, which has allowed Abbey to regain its share of the mortgage market and then some. It now makes 1 in 7 new mortgages...
...would guess, for example, that the states with the world's highest ratio of women to men in higher education are in the gulf. In Kuwait, women were elected to parliament for the first time this year. And women have been appointed to important ministerial posts in neighboring countries; Jordan has four women in its Cabinet, including Hala Latouf, the Minister for Social Development. There are women judges, too, in Palestine, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates - something that would have been hard to imagine a generation ago. And women are taking an increasingly prominent role in the economy...
Since Massachusetts is comparatively affluent, the fact that most of the state’s counties fell below the national average ratio came as a surprise to the researchers, they said...