Insurers generally claim that medical-loss ratios have little meaning in themselves because of different accounting systems and are not an accurate guide to profits, which have actually been driven down lately by ruthless competition.
Those conference tables have been getting worn down to plywood lately.
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But she also cuts the figure of an impulsive woman, difficult to please, harder still to pin down, and known, lately, to be off her rocker, understandably so, because of her son's death.
For one thing, the U.S. has become increasingly efficient lately, pushing down its total energy use by 6.4 percent from 2007 to 2012, even as GDP grew 3 percent in the same period.
According to Amherst data, a generic subprime bond issued in 2006 would fetch about 33 cents on the dollar lately down from 45 cents in the spring of 2011, but up from 30 cents at its trough last year.
Then it turned down again for a few months and lately has been growing very slowly.
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It lately has taken to shutting down groups and individuals who, Hoffman says, send spam e-mails to strangers just to build up their networks or take some of LinkedIn's revenue by recruiting other members without its permission.
I've seen a twinkle in a few eyes lately and I want to double down.
The intraday whoosh down that seems to occur all too often lately is likely a result of programs tied to the stocks being dumped en masse.
Have you noticed lately that energy prices are coming down?
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It also means helping those oppressed by our enemies, to assist them in undermining and, if possible, in bringing down their government a popular aspiration lately confirmed anew by a spate of tumultuous demonstrations across Iran.
But after grinding out some close wins lately, including a rally from 27 down in Cleveland, no one counted them out until the final buzzer.
Lately, his hedge fund has been selling down its stakes in financial firms like Citi and Bank of America and has apparently cashed out of Goldman Sachs.
He ran down the list of news organizations that have called his cell phone lately.
This new feature was meant to cut down on a wave of aggressive friend requesting that had swept Facebook lately.
Small wonder, therefore, that companies with mounting liabilities have seen their share prices fall lately or that many have been queuing up to close down their final-salary schemes.
India has caused less contention in the States lately--offshoring of high tech appears to have died down as an issue.
The oil price can go down as well as up and has been doing just that lately while the fracking revolution is changing the gas business dramatically.
But the economic news has been so gloomy lately, many believe another round of quantitative easing - to push down long-term interest rates and support the economy - is now firmly on the cards.
The giant has lately tried to downplay lower-quality sites in a project called Panda, knocking down in its results page some of the worst offenders.
The combination reflects the increasingly unsettled state of the art market lately, as billionaire collectors chase after the world's priciest masterpieces while collectors further down the food chain sneer at second-tier material that suddenly looks overpriced.
It's been a lousy run of luck for casino stocks lately, and none more so than MGM mirage (46, MGM), which is down 43% this year.
LulzSec has been on a media-hacking spree lately: they raided the servers of Fox.com to post private user data, then brought down two websites linked to Sony.
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