But setting that aside, a 30-to-1 benefit ratio to keep our air clean sounds like a mighty wise investment to me.
Although HS2 seems to have a positive cost-benefit ratio, there are other projects, chiefly in roadbuilding, that would provide a better return.
Like it or not, government is the only institution powerful enough to realign the risk-benefit ratio so that the people's interests are at least borne in mind.
Dr Anne MacGregor, who runs the menopause clinic at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, feels women are not being given the option of weighing up the risk-benefit ratio themselves.
However, this also does not seem to be the case and is just not intuitive, especially when one considers the relatively low cost-to-benefit ratio of most employer-sponsored insurance products.
Recently a detailed study conducted by the researchers at Columbia University has indicated that the cost-benefit ratio of using da Vinci surgical system to perform hysterectomies is not favorable at all.
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Breast cancer screening is in fact based on a radiation benefit ratio, not cost, but suppose that anaysis were to show that the screening should be different for black women, either earlier because of age as above, or avoided completely because of the lower rate of disease and higher radiation sensitivity in youger women making it more likely to kill than cure.
Efficiency is emissions free, creates local (and non-exportable) jobs, and repeatedly demonstrates a respectable benefit to investment ratio.
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Even the new proposed high-speed line in Britain has been shown to yield a benefit-cost ratio of around two-to-one.
When it was first proposed, the benefit-to-cost ratio was too slim to persuade the Treasury.
The coming change will allow all borrowers with loans backed by the company, regardless of their loan-to-value ratio, to benefit from the streamlined program.
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Though direct revenues alone would not make Galileo profitable, adding in the indirect economic gains resulting from better navigation of land, sea and air vehicles would produce a benefit-to-cost ratio of as much as 4.6 to 1.
So, in effect, do a few ecclesiastical spires: Each firm's charitable programs benefit churches (the town's church-to-bar ratio is 29:2).
Lehman realized a benefit by using the cash received to pay down other liabilities for a temporary improvement in the leverage ratio.
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Ms. Warden already sees the benefit: "Only one kid has refused to have his picture taken and that is a better ratio than ever, " she says.
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