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...want to] try to get more people into the system," he said. "It's better if you can lower the ratio [of advisers to students...
Microsoft's fundamentals are sound. The company recently sent up a flag on near term earnings, but generally things are on track and few doubt that Microsoft's core products are anything but first rate. Is the stock cheap? Well, over the past five years Microsoft's price-earnings ratio has ranged between 30 and 80 and averaged 51. Now the P/E is 41, by that measure its lowest point and best value in many months. That earnings multiple is well below those placed on lower-margin businesses run by, among others, Dell and Sun. And history (notably...
Featuring the highest hype-to-payoff ratio in sports, the 126th Run for the Roses will pack all its punch into two glorious minutes at Churchill Downs, cloaked by the affecting melodrama of a daytime soap, with a cast of characters to match. Here's a thumbnail sketch of this year's edition...
Specifically, students cite high student-to-faculty ratios at the school as a result of inadequate support from the University. Not only do the students note GSE has the highest student-to-faculty ratio of any of Harvard's schools, but also the highest of the U.S. News & World Report's top 50 education schools...
...what will happen when baby boomers--who owe their very existence to the procreative free-for-all that followed World War II--retire, leaving themselves to be supported by the much smaller generation they produced. In Germany there are currently four workers for every retired person. Before long that ratio will be down to just...