Word: ratio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
LOVELACE: More important is where you buy the stock, and a price-earnings ratio around 30 doesn't make Microsoft a value...
...allotted to you in a room that seems to include your entire (well-thumbed through) facebook, you realize that Harvard is suffering a bad case of overpopulation or else you are once again having that nightmare in which you went to the University of Michigan and the faculty-student ratio...
...into buying. The store, he says, should be "a rational extension of the [fashion] designer." Gabellini spends inordinate amounts of time with the fashion folks, right down to the artisan, trying to understand the craft of each house. Then he puts on his bean-counter hat and assesses the ratio of clothing sales to accessories sales and factors in other businesslike components to incorporate into his designs. A designer label like Jil Sander, from which clients are more apt to buy head to toe, requires a different take from that of a shoe and accessory brand like Prada...
Proportionality requires that the ratio of male to female athletes at colleges and universities be roughly the same as that in the overall student body...
...rules could put many major Japanese banks in imminent danger of failing to keep their ratio of capital-to-assets above 8%?a crucial industry minimum that banks must maintain to conduct business internationally. More importantly for executives looking to save face (and their jobs), 8% is also the magic number at which the FSA can forcibly recapitalize a bank or place some operational control in government hands. Desperate to raise capital, Japanese banks are finally overcoming their deeply ingrained disdain for foreign investors. American investment bank Merrill Lynch was recently allowed to take an $849 million stake...