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...team, the Crimson has struggled with turnovers averaging just over 20 per game and consequently has continued to carry an assist-to-turnover ratio of well under one. Harvard has also struggled in getting to the line and has had even more difficulty converting when it has the opportunity, hitting just over 70 percent on the season...
...many businesses survive, never mind thrive, with a customer-satisfaction rate of 50%. Somehow that ratio doesn't do justice to the 68,756 patrons packing spiffy Gillette Stadium and the 5.5 million homes watching ESPN as quarterback Tom Brady leads the New England Patriots past the Buffalo Bills. Armed with a game plan designed by the league's best coach, Bill Belichick, Brady dismantles the Bills. No doubt Bills customers at home in western New York are disappointed. Two weeks earlier, it was the Pats turn to disappoint, courtesy of a whipping from the surging Pittsburgh Steelers. The real...
...teborg University in Sweden and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee followed nearly 300 women over a period of 24 years and then, when the women were between the ages of 70 and 84, performed C.T. scans on their brains. Not surprisingly, body-mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height) increased as the women aged. In addition, the women with the highest BMI turned out to be the most likely to have suffered atrophy, or wasting, of the temporal lobes of the brain. In fact, the researchers found that for every 1-point rise...
...Yashiro abolished promotions and raises based on seniority, the rigid classification of employees according to education and the hierarchical wearing of uniforms by the assistant-level "office ladies" at company headquarters. Then he really took on Japan's business practices. Employing un-Japanese ruthlessness, he slashed the bad-loan ratio to 5.7%, down from 20%, and then launched service-oriented new products. "We had to change our mind-set," he says. "You have to look for solutions to [customers'] problems." Oh, yeah, Yashiro makes money too. The bank's profits jumped 25% last year, to $637 million. "Things are changing...
...Crimson has given the ball away at least 18 times in every game this season and has only completed one contest with an assist-to-turnover ratio above...