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A big chunk of those are teachers we put in high-poverty schools to increase the teacher-to-student ratio.

John Mackenzie

Imposing a ratio doesn't help you hire another nurse. What it does is create demand that drives up wages.

Danny Chun

Well in excess of the four-to-one ratio the U.S. Supreme Court has suggested approaches the constitutional limit of such awards.

Philip Morris

Our forecast for a 2006 P/E ratio of about 19 is reasonable given the profit outlook. These are not value stocks.

Alexander Young

We had excellent insurance, which at least was able to pay for rebuilding the club back to the way it was. But we also wanted to use the opportunity to make some improvements. So we had a limited bond issue among our members, and also took out a small mortgage. Even after all this, our equity-to-debt ratio is about 5-1, which is excellent for any organization.

Paul Sandler

Probably we're going to end up as Pfizer as the victor, ... We believe we'll probably end up there, but the ratio will probably be sweetened too.

Tom Burnett

We want to maintain the current ratio.

Spencer Scharff

Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.

Hunter Harrison

Flights are very full, probably at the highest...what we call 'load factor', the ratio between seats available and seats filled. We have the highest load factor in our history.

Bob Noble

The [price-to-earnings ratio] on the S&P and technology stocks in particular is enormously high.

David Dreman

The ratio did not show any fall, unlike our initial expectation. I guess there is still room for more new lodgings.

Saeko Yamanaka

The current ratio is appropriate. I expect it will decline further in the future. Last year's fast growth in fiscal revenue enabled the central government to cut the deficit.

Xiao Zhuoji

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Gustave Courbet

The ratio of meetings to patients is probably 10 to 1: Hawaii tomorrow. Geneva and Singapore next week.

Dr. Jeremy Farrar

I looked at the cost-benefit ratio, and I decided I didn't need to go.

David Britt

Because the school district lies in two counties, I have to pro-rate the amount of tax dollars that I need per county by market-value ratio.

Bill Porter

We had our opportunities (against Buffalo). The thing now is to go and capitalize on them. The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio. The thing for us is to go in and win that.

Jason Simmons

As a judge, you look at the basics of a recipe: Does it make sense, does the ratio of ingredients make sense? And is it a crab soup? Some of the entries we get are almost anything but.

John Shields

I'm sorry Al that I never told you that I changed the ratio in my differential, ... You really weren't any less of a driver, it's just that I cheated a little on you.

Gordon Cooper

The ratio of fiscal deficit to GDP will continue to drop this year.

Peng Longyun

The students really have been doing well. We have a good ratio of students passing.

Margaret Bush

We are slightly disappointed by the composition of the result ... Swiss Re's combined ratio was 108.7 percent. Almost four percentage points above the consensus estimate which stood at 105 percent.

Bank Leu

The challenges facing successful implementation of the exploration vision are formidable, ... ranging from budgetary to the noise-signal ratio of competing priorities facing the political system.

Courtney Stadd

What you see at the top of our list is that the companies have roughly a 65/35 ratio of white workers to workers of color. That far outweighs the labor pool in this country.

Luke Visconti

If they weren't here, then we would really be in bad shape, in terms of our (minority) ratio.

Rebecca Cooper

Our goal would be that all existing agricultural land, accurately and honestly defined, is mitigated by the preservation of other lands at a one-to-one ratio.

Brian Schmidt

We have more staff than we need. Our administration has said that. Our teacher-to-student ratio is down to about 13½ to 1.

Dave Stidham

Our debt-to-revenue ratio is very good. Our bonds are backed by our sales tax.

Bob Patterson

Most of the upside came from areas like a lower tax rate, which accounted for 26 cents of (earnings per share) upside and lower than expected (compensation) ratio.

Michael Hecht

So far, the debt payment ratio (of loan payments to income) hasn't been higher this decade than during the 1990s, but it's been partly held in check by lower interest rates. In some sense, we haven't seen the whole burden bearing down yet.

Heather Boushey

We had seven assists to 18 turnovers. That's a horrible ratio.

Blake Schilb

We talk about how we need to win the turnover ratio. It grabs the momentum when you get a turnover.

Kyle Rippy

Our findings show that the technology is unlikely to be used by the majority of Americans and should not have an impact on the natural sex ratio.

Dr. Tarun Jain

Even after absorbing higher than normal catastrophe losses during the quarter, we were able to post an exceptional 91.2 percent property and casualty combined ratio. This compares to a combined ratio of 89 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004.

John Hayden

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Ken Blanchard

We expect that the growth rate of our dividends over the next few years will continue to exceed the growth rate in our earnings per share and, therefore, result in a dividend payout ratio above 50 percent after 2006.

William Hecht

We believe the noise will remain constant, but the signal/noise ratio is clearly falling, as the macro economy continues to enter a recovery phase.

Adam Le Mesurier

Poverty is a lagging indicator. It is sort of the last ratio that declines with an expanding economy.

Al Hubbard

What would BBVA do with Lloyds? Will it improve the cost/income ratio, which is already very low? There are lots of unanswered questions there.

James Leal

Because CGI pre-fills the information from the Registry [of Motor Vehicles], we are insuring the policy information is perfect. Typically, the error ratio is less than one percent.

Peter Chung

The aim of these changes is to improve our focus on customers and our ability to serve their changing financial needs. It will also address the high ratio of staff in head office functions to those in direct customer contact.

Michael Geoghegan

To be fair-not that I really care about being fair to anyone, ever-but to be fair, I'm sure that same ratio of bad films to good probably exists in every studio.

Alexander Payne

Scale is important to get the right ratio of research and development over sales.

Frans Van Houten

What a sandwich maker does is make the grilled cheese a little more special. Not only does it make the marks, but it flattens it well and makes for a good cheese-bread ratio.

Laura Werlin

Firms need to change what they're offering. Schwab is doing an excellent job of this, with the little classes they're running for folks -- this is what a P/E ratio is, this is what a limit order is.

Ken Clemmer

The baby boomers have a lot of disposable income and are very experience-driven. We feel a world-class spa will be vital to the resort destination experience. The entire industry is doing this — looking at the ratio of gaming to non gaming amenities.

Ray Rose

We received more state appropriations than the previous biennium. But with growth and inflation, we arguably didn't gain funding. That left us with a seriously deteriorated student/faculty ratio.

Provost Hobson Wildenthal

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Goolam Ballim

Including the planned preferred share issue, Industrial Alliance's financial leverage and fixed charge coverage ratio are expected to remain well within the parameters set by Standard & Poor's for the current ratings.

Donald Chu

The ratio is lower than the world's average, but the number of civil servants in China is too large compared with the country's economic output.

Wang Jian

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Bonnie Raitt

Based on the relationship between the stocks-to-use ratio and price since 1998-99, a price of $2.51 implies a 2006-07 year-ending stocks-to-use ratio of 8.8 percent. In comparison, the current projection of the stocks-to-use ratio for the 2005-06 marketing year is 22.4 percent.

Darrel Good

If you're winning the turnover ratio at the end of the season, nine times out of 10 you're in the playoffs.

Juran Bolden

There were a lot of good things, especially the assists to basket ratio. That's when we're playing our best basketball. But when you have an ending like that, it takes a lot of strength to find the good things.

Rob Judson

Our initial tests have been very encouraging. Our ratio of sales-to-leads is running well above industry averages. There's no question that this concept is an effective way to drive more business to Thrifty Car Sales dealers.

Jeff Cerefice

Scale matters, to get the right ratio of R&D over sales.

Frans Van Houten

We saw an adjustment in the 'P' of the 'P-E' ratio.

Paul Cherney

A positive, was their cost-to-income ratio. There has definitely been some progress on costs.

Angus Geddes

I wouldn't want anybody to think we are going to run our UK business at an 80 percent combined ratio. I would be delighted if it was 95 percent.

Dane Douetil

We get a 90 to 95 percent kill ratio. That means the bacteria aren't around to munch on nutrients and give off gas, so a lot of the odor goes away.

Buzz Hoerr

People who think they attract mosquitoes are the ones at largest risk of mosquito-borne disease. They'll have a hundred mosquitoes feed on them when a normally repellent person might have five. It's that kind of ratio.

Jerry Butler

Even though our new lending group, along with the hiring of other seasoned personnel, increased our operating expenses slightly, our efficiency ratio for the quarter remained strong.

John Guedry

The best index of obesity as a predictor of myocardial infarction is the waist-to-hip ratio.

Salim Yusuf

As we see it today, we would expect the core group to deliver a combined operating ratio of around 95% in 2006.

Andy Haste

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight [federal] employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

Martin L. Gross

The major reason for China's rising sex ratio is the entrenched concept of 'boys are better than girls'.

Zhang Weiqing