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...then to avoid inflation? Last week men who presumably know business best, 543 executives at the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, voted by an 18-to-l ratio to urge a slash in federal spending instead of a tax rise...
...profession, thus has less time for individual patients. Moreover, his new skills can best be employed not in the home, but in the office or hospital, where equipment is available. With growing affluence and insurance, more and more people can afford what he has to offer. Since the overall ratio of doctors to population has remained roughly the same-one doctor for 760 people-the result is that the patient-load on doctors has doubled in just a few years. Because the patient is increasingly sophisticated about medicine, thanks to better reportage of medical advances, he is also likely...
...doctor's hard work and all the medical advances, the U.S. still has plenty of room for improvement. In incidence of infant mortality, it stands twelfth among all nations. The life expectancy of U.S. men is only 18th in the world. In ratio of doctors to population, the U.S. ranks 15th. This low rating for the world's richest country is partly due to the fact that U.S. doctors tend to cluster in urban areas, where there are better hospital facilities and more opportunity for consultation, leaving a lethal shortage in remote and rural areas. Another reason...
Though the market will quite possibly go lower still, this very fact carries a potential of strength for the future. Prices have been falling while corporate earnings have been rising, with the result that the important "price-earnings ratio" of stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average is down to 14.85 times this year's expected earnings, compared with ratios of 19 to 1 in each of the last two years. Moreover, plenty of big buying power is waiting on the sidelines. Brokers are holding $1.8 billion in unused cash for their investors and large institutions have plenty...
...land for the motel is zoned with a floor-area ratio (FAR) of four, allowing four square feet of floor area for every square foot of land...