Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dukakis (he taught there). But we can claim Dukakis (law school grad) as our own as well. What's more, we have Teddy Kennedy, who does more for Budweiser beer than he does for the state of Massachusetts. So we have two embarrassing politicians and they have none. Minus one to Northeastern...
...once unshakable firm was forced to revoke a 78-year policy against involuntary layoffs; and it recorded losses of $3 billion. This year isn't shaping up any better. Standard & Poor's stripped IBM of its prized triple-A credit ranking, lowering it three notches to double-A-minus. That will adversely affect some $19 billion worth of senior debt. Last March, Moody's Investors Service downgraded IBM's debt rating...
Mansfield, who is often referred to by his nickname "C Minus," said that students under the pressure of getting good grades may be driven away from strictly-graded classes...
...spinal cord and brain from a simple tube of cells is as crucial to life as it is beautiful to contemplate. But any defect in this neural tube, likely to appear early in development, can be devastating. Among the possible results: anencephaly, in which a baby is born minus most of its brain, and spina bifida...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 597 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 13 by Yankelovich, Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...