The goal of the exercise was to reduce the ratio of debt to Gross Domestic Product (a standard way of measuring red ink) to 60 percent.
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Measured by the ratio of whites to blacks, the ratio of city to rural folk and past election returns, Missouri is a microcosm of the nation that surrounds it.
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Being able to tweak the ratio of calcium to phosphate alters not only the strength of the NanOss, but also the rate at which it is absorbed and the ease with which it combines with collagen, a protein that is the other main ingredient of bone.
There is another trust fund issue and it is the one related to the expected increase in the ratio of retirees to workers over the next couple of decades.
In the meantime the total number of banks in the US continues to decline while the ratio of tangible equity to tangible assets stands higher than any time in the 1984-2010 period.
But in the same period, 239 million tracks were legally downloaded and, given that the industry used to reckon the ratio of illegal to legal downloads was 10:1, that looks like progress.
The country that comes closest to Russia in the ratio of police to citizens is Italy, but surely with the austerity there, those guys will be getting pink slipped.
One week prior to the summit, Jairam Ramesh, member and minister of state for environment and forests, told India's Parliament that the country should plan to reduce the ratio of pollution to production by 20% to 25% compared with 2005 levels, but like China, not accept a legally binding emissions reduction target.
So far, however, it is not winning enough to get the ratio of costs to income down to its target of 70%.
Suggesting that we make cut the growth rate of spending to keep the ratio of government-to-GDP near historical levels, as Paul Ryan has suggested?
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With hours worked stagnant, our main source of growth must come from productivity gains, which depends on investment to raise the ratio of capital to labor.
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According to a 2010 study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, the ratio of positive to negative evaluations is twenty-five hundred to one.
Even in Japan, where the global recession has slowed growth, the ratio of GERD to GDP remains one of the highest in the world, at 3.7% in 2008.
It also stresses the importance of the ratio of adults to children.
The problem is that until banks have all the capital they need, and as I have already mentioned, all the banks will be sorely tempted to boost the ratio of their capital to assets by lending less, to shrink the denominator in the calculation.
To bring the ratio of prices to rents back to equilibrium, either rents must rise sharply or prices must fall.
FGRS's aim was to confirm the ratio of normal to dark matter.
Well, we still don't quite understand the exact nature of dark matter, but highly precise measurements of positron fraction (the ratio of positrons to electrons and protons) do bring us a small step closer to proving the existence of the theoretical material.
Its ratio of corporate debt to GDP was 49%, the ratio of household debt to GDP was just 31% and financial sector debt was just 14% of GDP.
But it could also slow down the ageing of the population and, by changing the ratio of young workers to old people, give time for the creation of a decent social-security system.
As you find when trying to take a really good photo, in trying to crack wise the ratio of dross to gold is really high.
If we want the tide to turn and the ratio of men to women to really change then we need to start making women realize that fact.
According to Deutsche Bank, the ratio of rent to after-tax mortgage payments was 107.8% in the third quarter, implying rent is more expensive than a monthly home payment (for median homeowners).
You add the carbonated water to the syrup and you get soda (or pop, or soda pop, depending on where you live.) The ratio of syrup to soda is the soda multiplier.
This is partly because of the huge fear of crime that preceded the present decline, and partly because even with recent increases in the number of policemen the ratio of police to violent crimes reported is still way below what it was in the 1960s.
But before its relevance could be fully determined, an analysis would need to be made of each call to determine the ratio of calls made relative to blacks, whites and Hispanics, whether other strangers who weren't black were ever seen in the complex and not called on and whether unknown black men were ever seen in the complex and the police not called.
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We round out the calculations by giving some weight to championship droughts (17 years for Atlanta, 33 years for Seattle) and to the ratio of total seasons to championships won (for example, the four teams in Phoenix sports history have competed for a combined 95 seasons with one title to show for them, courtesy of the 2001 Diamondbacks).
The stock of unsold homes is huge and the ratio of prices to rents suggests that property is still expensive ( see article).
As a result, Australia's terms of trade (the ratio of the prices of exports to imports) is at its highest level for 30 years.
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In comparing drug companies (or software or chip or computer companies), you can look not only at the ratios of price-to- earnings but also at the ratio of price-to-innovation-adjusted earnings.
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