Word: minuses
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...HOUSE—The Bible tells us that a house divided against itself cannot stand. But this one’s made it through the summer, minus a chunk that fell out of the decades-old roof...
...money-market funds--a popular parking place for rainy-day reserves--sat at 0.51% two months ago. The rate was 0.68% last week, a difference that would give investors an extra $3.4 billion over the course of a year. Money-market funds tend to yield the federal-funds rate minus expenses (average: 0.50%), which could mean a 1.50% average yield by the end of the year. But that still falls far short of inflation--now at 3%--and the 6% money funds yielded...
...Harvard said Surgut used a different calculation when reporting net profits to preferred shareholders. In this formulation, Surgut calculated net profits to be total revenue minus total costs and capital investment—leading to much smaller reported profits...
...claim, Harvard argues that net profits should be calculated as total revenue minus total costs. The claim said Surgut accurately reported its net profits to the Russian Federation for taxation purposes...
...Tenet wouldn't confirm whether he told President Bush before the war that evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons-of-mass-destruction arsenal was a "slam dunk," as reported in Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack. The panel last week sent Tenet the several-hundred-page report--minus its conclusions--for a declassification review...