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...push to improve student life is also a major underpinning of the $75 million which HLS wants in order to hire new professors. By further decreasing the student-faculty ratio, officials said, they hope to make it easier for law students to work closely with their professors...
...course, if there is one asset the clubs are all chasing now, it is the local member. An Asian-white ratio of 90 to 10 is no longer seen as unspeakable decline but economic salvation. In pursuit of this, the clubs have undergone strenuous reinvention, espousing "multiculturalism" and downplaying Anglo connections like any lefty nongovernmental organization...
Caps on noneconomic damages may not hold down doctors' insurance costs, but they have boosted insurers' profits. In states with caps, the Weiss study found, claims payments grew only 38%, compared with 71% in states without them. By raising premiums, insurers have improved their ratio of claims to premiums, a key measure of profitability, from 110% in 2000 to 89% in 2002. "The caps are great for insurers," Weiss says. "Their payouts will be lower. In a perfect world, they would pass that savings on." But the industry's losses have been so large that lower claims will not reverse...
There's a perfect storm brewing on Europe's horizon - a combination of tentative markets, sluggish growth prospects, and a demographic time bomb that will see the ratio of workers to retirees plummet dramatically over the next 40 years. The result; as state budgets shrink, Europe's consumers will have to rely more on themselves for things they once took for granted - like retirement benefits and comprehensive health care. For some, that will mean entering the investment culture for the first time - just when the outlook is bleak. For others, it will mean holding their noses and forging ahead despite...
...ratio of women in the Class of 2002 assigned to a single House ranged from 41.60 to 54.63 percent of the House—a 13-point spread. But for the Class of 2003, the spread was less than eight points, and in this spring’s lottery it dipped below seven...