Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separate studies. The first, in late April and early May, was based on a national probability sample of 1,238 personal interviews; the second, in mid-July, on a matched probability sample of 1,040 interviews. Results for each individual survey have an error factor of plus or minus 3%. In the estimation of trends from one survey to the next, the error factor is plus or minus 4%. The first report includes five indicators...
...this week, I won it all for him," Killer kept saying as the rain poured down still harder, and Victor blithered on in pigeon English, and the fat old schlock-slingers drooled over the very schlock-up-able fact that he was going to give all his prize money (minus a cool $3000 for Killer) to his sixty-year-old grandmother in Chicago. Then two of the schlock-slingers brightened up to who Killer was, and started pumping him with questions. Finally, they got around to asking him his name...
When Chief Wahoo McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins went back to punt, the statisticians' palms got wet. How do you calculate a punting average with some kicks going for minus yardage? When Ernie Ladd got on the scales in summer camp, they had to take him out to a truck inspection station. Doctors' scales only go to 300 pounds. When Booth Lusteg went to the Buffalo Bills training camp, they were willing to take a chance because he claimed to be only 23. He was actually 27 and had no previous kicking experience. He booted the Bills to the playoffs...
...better verse translated into Latin was put together, no doubt, to amuse those admirable scholars who actually understand Latin. Never mind them. The soul in real need of Nash in Latin belongs to a middleaged, indifferently educated individual who once, perhaps 25 years ago, earned an A-minus on a Latin test...
...Crimson squad enters the important doubleheader minus the services of captain Jim Stoeckel, whose eligibility case will be reviewed next week...