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- noun Plural form of
ratio .
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Examples
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The goal behind these minimum ratios is to make sure a good portion of premium dollars spent by consumers goes toward care and not just to "enhance profits or pay large salaries," Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said.
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Because if I think of the two in ratios, in comparisons, then in some sense the vertigo is canceling out part of the niece time.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway truepenny 2009
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To repeat, the basic problem in an era of increasing retiree-to-worker ratios is that you have to start prefunding benefits.
Matthew Yglesias » Alice Rivlin: “Now Is An Excellent Time To Fix Social Security And Medicare” 2009
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No matter how you slice it, the distortions created by a ginormous increase in the demand for mortgages to securitize at 40-1 leverage ratios is not an example of the restriction of free markets.
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But the housing bubble started earlier than 2004 -- and based on long-term ratios of home prices to rental prices and incomes, home prices probably could easily fall another 5 to 10 percent before bottom is reached.
Archive 2009-02-01 Robert Reich 2009
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But the housing bubble started earlier than 2004 -- and based on long-term ratios of home prices to rental prices and incomes, home prices probably could easily fall another 5 to 10 percent before bottom is reached.
And Now Homeowners Robert Reich 2009
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White victims are, overwhelmingly, the victims under those circumstances, in ratios nearly identical to the cases found on death row.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Why Court Decisions Involving Death Make Us Nervous 2005
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Just like the wines we drink, any discussion of wine prices and price-to-value ratios is always a complex and layered one.
From the Vine 2005
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In these respects, which are important also to self-sustained growth, the gap between countries with high export ratios and those (of similar size) with low export ratios is substantial.
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Notably, though, the expression ratios of the deletion/duplication individuals overlap with the expression ratios of wild-type individuals.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Benjamin Schuster-B�ckler et al. 2010
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