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...Crimson had 19 turnovers against only eight assists, and the ratio was even worse—12 to two—in the first half. Giovacchini was the only Harvard player with multiple assists with three, but he also committed seven turnovers...
...right to charge for their services. Fund managers need to eat too. But many investors don't fully grasp what they're paying for and why. In a poll by MONEY magazine and the Vanguard fund group, only a quarter of those in the survey realized that the "expense ratio" is an annual fee deducted from a fund's earnings--and that it lowers shareholders' returns...
Harvard’s turnover-to-assist ratio has also improved. While hovering around two-to-one in its first three games, the ratio was nearly one-to-one against Maine...
...issue of Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson’s weekly magazine, Elizabeth W. Green raised valid concerns about the ratio of low-income students at Harvard. She pointed out that only 9 percent of the College’s students come from families making less than $40,000 a year; these students comprise a substantially smaller portion of Harvard’s population than UCLA, MIT and all but one of the other Ivy League schools. Administrators attribute this imbalance partly to insufficient recruiting efforts. Perhaps highlighting how the financial aid program truly levels the playing field by providing equal...
...would appear that the rich countries have done quite well by this unleashing of free markets. But, alas, much of the benefits have gone to the wealthiest sectors of society. Under President Bill Clinton, who engineered the passage of NAFTA, the ratio of CEO wages to those of the average U.S. worker skyrocketed from 113 to 1 in 1991 to 449 to 1 at the end of his presidency. According to the Congressional Budget Office, from 1979 to 1997, the average household in the lowest quintile declined significantly, while the average household in the top 1 percent soared from...