They have been headed in that direction for several years--in 2006, digital sets will outsell analog sets at a ratio by a two-to-one ratio, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates--but the new law will accelerate that trend.

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"I would be pleased with a two-to-one ratio, " said Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, professor of child development at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.

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The Forbes feature drew participants from every continent (except Antarctica), and we saw a two-thirds male to one-third female ratio.

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Even the new proposed high-speed line in Britain has been shown to yield a benefit-cost ratio of around two-to-one.

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Assuming this trade was a ratio spread, the trader might have sold 58, 000 October 4 puts, thus creating a two-to-one ratio with the purchased 29, 000 October 5 puts.

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After the longest and costliest election in U.S. history, Barack Obama won a landslide, defeating his Republican opponent, John McCain, in the Electoral College by a ratio of two-to-one.

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