Word: subtractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...condemns Dean's ignorance and uselessness; in another he courageously saves Dean's life. The chemistry between Hackman and Smith is powerful, as the two reluctant heroes transform initial self-interest into teamwork. The ending is a contrived and coincidental as a novel by Charles Dickens, but does not subtract from the film's overall appeal...
Those who find it difficult to subtract four-digit numbers may wish to bring a calculator, or at least scratch paper, to the Museum of Fine Arts' exhibition "Picasso: the Early Years." Even easier, however, is to eavesdrop as visitors whisper to each other while subtracting 1881, the year of Picasso's birth, from the date of a painting's execution. The solutions are often unbelievably small...
...talk to opponents--including newly aroused parents--and you'll hear horror stories of reformers dumping the most basic algorithms, or first-graders turning to a calculator to subtract 4 from 6, or "math" textbooks featuring lessons on endangered species and the Dogon people of West Africa. "Whole math," says molecular biologist Michael McKeown, "means less material covered in less depth with less rigor." Early last year, McKeown co-founded Mathematically Correct, a Website based in San Diego ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/ that has become the nerve center for the counterinsurgency. Here parents like Marianne Jennings of Mesa, Ariz., share dispatches from...
...agreement leans closer to the House's version of the bill, a sticky development since Clinton considers the House proposal less acceptable even than the Senate's. GOP leaders were tight-lipped on details, but people close to the talks said the Republican proposal will allow investors to subtract the effects of inflation in calculating their capital gains and prevent the expansion of the $500 per child tax credit. Both provisions are anathema to Clinton. The bargaining table, meanwhile, is decidedly tilted toward the President. "Clinton and the Democrats are ahead in the public opinion polls in almost...
Turnover. In the typical stock fund, 4 out of 5 stocks held at the start of the year are gone by the end of the year. The trading costs subtract an additional .6% from a fund's investment gains...