Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of fate's minus pool of mediocrities but a quite decent human being. Ditto the rest of the staff (exemplary actors all) at the Cull-Loomis School of English for Foreigners. Call it cul-de-sac for short. "Teaching foreigners is a job for failures," says one. Still, in a period of four years, life does seep into the arid crevices of their existence. There are births, marriages, deaths, philanderings and conversions...
...telephone survey of 1,019 registered voters was conducted on Dec. 8 and 9. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3%. future, home computers will be as commonplace as television sets or dishwashers. Although they see dangers of unemployment and dehumanization, solid majorities feel that the computer revolution will ultimately raise production and therefore living standards (67%), and that it will improve the quality of their children's education...
...telephone survery of 1,109 registered voters was conducted on Dec. 8 and 9. The margin of sampling error plus or minus...
...fact, so-called real interest rates which reflect the cost of borrowing minus inflation, have actually increased slightly during the period because inflation has fallen faster than interest rates. Says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Washington-based Institute for International Economics: "Interest rates must drop by two more points. It is critical for the U.S. and world recovery...
...survey polled 1,019 registered voters by telephone on Dec. 8 and 9. The sampling error is plus or minus 3%. When compared with the results of previous polls, the potential sampling error is plus or minus...