In France, for children under the age of four, the ratio is one to eight.
The company reported a decline in operating income of 3% year-over-year as the operating ratio increased four-tenths of a percent to 70.5% from 70.1%.
For old timers Mel Ott, Jimmy Foxx and Lou Gehrig, the ratio was about four-to-one.
At Beijing four years ago, the ratio was more than 42% -- and the IOC expects that to increase again.
He further identified four previous periods when the ratio was at similarly high levels and notes that stocks did not fare well afterward.
According to the Vickers Weekly Insider Report, published by Argus Research, the average level of this ratio over the last four decades is between 2-to-1 and 2.5-to-1.
After a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, preforeclosure sale, or short sale, there is a mandatory waiting period of two years for a loan with an 80% maximum LTV (loan-to-value ratio), or four years for a loan with a 90% LTV.
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.
It found that for younger working households throughout Wales, the average house price to income ratio is now more than four to one.
China has increased the reserve ratio six times and raised interest rates four times since October.
The current rulemaking orgy comes as three out of four investors can't define an "expense ratio" and two-thirds think "no-load" funds are free (in truth, they don't charge a fee to start an account, but they do take annual charges for expenses).
This ratio registers in the 96th annual percentile, just four percentage points from a pessimistic peak.
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It has a one-to-one nurse-patient ratio in critical care and one-to-four in the rest.
Indeed, all four speakers at the SocGen event used a chart of the cyclically adjusted ratio.
Money will be tight to pay for their care, as the ratio of taxable workers per benefits-collecting retiree will shrink from four to two.
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 bids to offers ratio was 3.05 times versus 2.81 times at the last four auctions.
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The ratio of market value to revenues was much higher for growth stocks in 1972 -- four times, compared with three currently.
To turn the ratio around: If you want to displace a unit of petroleum energy, you have to burn four-fifths of a unit in fossil fuels.
With a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.10 and a growth rate (based on the average of the three-, four- and five-year historical EPS growth rates) of 24.14%, Hasbro has a price-to-earnings-growth ratio 0.96.
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