Word: subtractions
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...Fascist votes ("I think I can ride a horse without becoming one"), but as the protests increased he hastily shifted tactics. Shortly before the Chamber of Deputies was to pass final verdict on his government, he announced: "No matter what the results of the voting are, I shall subtract from the total the votes of the Fascists. Then if I remain short of the required majority I shall resign...
...white-collar and other service employees per production worker is on the increase because more of them are needed to sell, distribute and service the greater outpouring of goods from the more efficient production lines. If all factory employees were counted in, said BLS, it would be necessary to subtract at least 1% from the manufacturing productivity gains in 1954, 1955 and 1956. This would all but wipe out any gain last year...
...even reminders of Princeton couldn't subtract from the effect of the varsity baseball team's first victory over the perennially powerful Holy Cross nine since 1920, 9 to 2. J. N. Barbee '28 held the Crusaders to only six hits. Almost a month later, on June 5, the varsity licked Holy Cross again, but this time the victory came harder--4 to 3, in fourteen innings...
Although the italics are ours, the distinction should be clear: The Council's course, outside the concentrator's field, would subtract from the scientist's already limited number of "free" courses, while the original plan would have placed the course within his field, thereby counting for concentration. Even many science concentrators feel that courses in humanities and social sciences are more in keeping with the purposes of General Education than additional courses in science...
...Government 96.6% of the total net cost of the program. In all, 15 big U.S. rubber, oil and chemical companies will pay $310 million, almost the full current value that independent appraisers put on the plants, and more than twice as much as the worth on Government books (which subtract normal yearly depreciation...