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...than-usual cohort that delayed the decision too long: an unprecedented number of infertile couples are in the adoption marketplace. There are an average of four eager U.S. couples for each of the 50,000 domestic-born children placed in new homes each year; some adoption advocates put the ratio as high as 20 to 1. U.S. couples on an adoption-agency waiting list can wait as long as five years for a white newborn...
...theorizes that the findings for women might "not differ qualitatively, but we want to see the net health-benefit ratio for aspirin and heart attacks...
Meanwhile, fewer blacks are seeing private physicians than ever before. In 1977, 3 out of 5 were covered by private health insurance. By 1987, the ratio had dropped to less than half. Black doctors tend to treat more black patients than do their white colleagues. Yet the number of black doctors declined from 26,000 in 1984 to 16,000 last year, largely because federal scholarship programs for medical students have been cut back...
...managerial incompetence, the Sabahs appear to have the political savvy necessary to perpetuate their rule well into the next century. Exactly how they use their power is anyone's guess, but growing xenophobia is one likely effect. For years Kuwait's goal has been to reach a fifty-fifty ratio of Kuwaitis to foreigners by the year 2000 (vs. the 30-to-70 ratio before the Iraqis rolled in). The invasion has made the government more loudly determined than ever to reach that goal -- but getting there will probably prove impossible. After a whirlwind shopping spree in the Far East...
Declining issues outnumbered advances by a ratio of about 7-to-4 in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks, with 1028 down, 585 up and 464 unchanged...