In fact, this program was so successful that it was oversubscribed by a ratio of three to one.
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My former colleague calculates that positive profit surprises are outnumbering negative ones by a ratio of better than 3:1.
While she found some modest gains, she also concluded that the costs outweighed the benefits by a ratio of six to one.
After the longest and costliest election in U.S. history, Barack Obama won a landslide, defeating his Republican opponent, John McCain, in the Electoral College by a ratio of two-to-one.
Hillary Clinton, by a ratio of 2 to 1, Obama seemed mindful that he had won 80 percent of the black vote and less than 25 percent of the white vote.
Only 115, 000 women have committed crimes worthy of jail -- and while that's doubled in the last 10 years, more men continue to wind up in jail by a ratio of nearly 15-to-1.
Other physicians (those who do not fit into the categories of primary care, non-surgical specialist or surgical specialist) are overwhelmingly supportive of the notion that the ACA was a good beginning by a ratio of 68-32.
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In a sign of broad optimism, the number of New York Stock Exchange-listed companies posting gains on Thursday outnumbered losers by a ratio of 4.6 to 1, making for the broadest-based stock advance in more than two months.
Meanwhile back in the election campaign of 2006, a new poll released today by the National Council for Research on Women says women voters favor candidates who are for bringing U.S. troops out of Iraq and by a ratio of nearly three to one.
At the time of its demise, Bear Stearns was overextended by a leverage ratio of 30-to-1 (the ratio of money leant out vs. capital on hand).
Judging a team by its ratio of runs scored to runs allowed and seeing how that compares to its real world wins is a bit like judging a stock by its fundamentals and comparing those numbers to its share price.
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One reason: A fund can achieve a low downside-capture ratio simply by keeping a slug of money in cash.
In fact a bank with a leverage ratio of infinity run by individuals with god-like knowledge of the true risks of lending would be safer than a bank run by mortals whose leverage ratio is tiny.
Taking this a step further, you can determine the number of days it takes to completely turn over inventory by dividing the number of days in a period by the inventory turnover ratio.
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And though fewer firms are defaulting than were doing so or threatening to do so a few months ago, the ratio of upgrades to downgrades by Moody's, a credit-rating agency, continues to decline.
Some experts argue that youth unemployment is better and more accurately represented by using a ratio, calculated as the share of total number unemployed.
For these reasons some argue that youth unemployment is better and more accurately represented by using a ratio, calculated as the share of unemployed, as a percentage of the whole youth population.
That chip, along with the custom charging circuitry developed by OLPC and Marvell means that the tablet can be charged by a hand crank at a 10:1 ratio (10 minutes of usage time for every minute spent cranking), or by the optional four watt solar panel cover at a 2:1 ratio on sunny days.
The display has a resolution of 1, 440 pixels wide by 900 pixels high and an aspect ratio of 16:10.
The new DX has -- by a good margin -- the best contrast ratio of all those devices.
Multiplying the diversion ratio by the profit margin gives a measure of the lost benefits of competition should the firms merge.
It looks like the trader is positioning for significant, albeit limited, downside movement in the price of the underlying by employing a ratio put spread.
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Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a five-to-one ratio, and more than 90.0% of the trading by volume was to the downside.
This is why a high current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) raises my level of skepticism when I look at a company.
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But even by the end of the decade its debt as a ratio of GDP will be 120% - the same as Italy's now.
So instead Mr Saffold proposed aiming at a funding ratio of 80% within 50 years, with employees' contributions being raised by 1% a year for three years from 2015.
And it was really from 2000 onwards, the euro years, that Spain really got the borrowing bug, with the ratio of aggregate debt to GDP rising by a staggering 171 percentage points of GDP.
Say the krona strengthens to a ratio of eight to the euro--by 12.5%, in other words.
AXA, a French insurer, had a combined ratio (claims plus expenses, divided by premiums) of 111% in 2001.
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