Medical care ratio is medical costs and claims reflected as percentage of total collected premium.

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The overall figure for average property prices in 2008 recorded by HSPC compared to 2007 has fallen by 5%, this has been an ongoing trend for the last two quarters of 2008 and is also reflected in the years total average.

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There was also some long liquidation reflected by a decrease in total longs of 376 lots.

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The bulk of the rise in platinum net length appeared to be short covering, as reflected by declines in the number of total short positions.

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As of Feb. 14, money managers in the disaggregated report increased their net length to 14, 817 lots from 12, 298 the prior week, mainly due to fresh buying as reflected by the 1, 812 build in total longs.

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This mainly was due to a decline of 8, 001 total longs, although there was also some fresh selling as reflected by an increase of 2, 215 shorts.

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But Mr. Diller says that's not a fair comparison for his total compensation for the decade, because the compensation was driven by option gains that reflected strong returns over the earlier periods.

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