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REINHARDT: Ten or 15 years ago, the ratio of health-care spending for 55-year-olds to 25-year-olds used to be about 2.3 to 1. Now it's closer to 3.5 or 4 to 1. An older person now costs more. It's the new technology...
...When he arrives at Cabot the room is sparsely populated, but Fisher, unfazed by his unfortunate promptness, still works the crowd. He greets boarding-school sophomore buddies, his main social connections. At this early stage in the evening, the girl-to-guy ratio is skewed in favor of the girls, so it seems an appropriate time to delve into the murky waters of first-year love life. “There’s a lot of cutie-pie girls here,” Fisher observes, “but so far this year I haven’t asked...
...approved 28 new groups last semester, bringing the total number of student groups to 250 for about 6,600 undergraduates, making Harvard’s student group-to-student ratio significantly higher than those of other schools in the area...
Even with its smaller group-to-student ratio, BC has taken action to curb the proliferation of groups on campus...
...every $1 of insider buying. The current reading: $6.15 to $1, "a very bullish signal," says Schwenger. David Coleman, editor of Vickers Weekly Insider Report, reaches the same conclusion. He focuses on numbers of shares traded, not dollars. In the first part of June, his weekly ratio of shares sold by insiders to shares bought by them hit a 15-year high of 4.2 to 1 but has since fallen to about 1 to 1, a rare episode of parity last seen immediately following Sept. 11, 2001. When insiders buy more than they sell, as Coleman believes will...