Word: subtractive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After adding up the $5,574,944 in losses, the paper listed nine shows that had so far made $1,254,422 in profits. The Grey Lady's grey matter failed to execute the obvious next step and subtract the second figure from the first...
Take a pretty good college baseball team and subtract the guts of the League's best infield, the League's leading hitter, a player now working in the N.Y. Giants farm system, and a starting pitcher. The result is some thing resembling the 1963 Harvard squad...
...Colombey, the life will be very pleasant." Next day, De Gaulle flew to Paris to tell his Cabinet that France's mandate was strong enough for him to accept. Obviously echoing De Gaulle's view, Premier Georges Pompidou explained that to get the true results, one must subtract from the no votes "the 27% or 28%" that represent the Communists and the extreme rightists, who are antidemocratic as well as anti-Gaullist. Thus, suggested Pompidou, the opposition party leaders were able to poll only about 10% of the vote-an insignificant amount next to the 62% voting...
...Usual Myopia. The Berlin exchange hardly eased the disarmament discussions taking place in Geneva's Palais des Nations. As long as the threat of war continues over Berlin, the U.S. will subtract no weapon and no man from its armed forces anywhere. Moreover, the Kennedy Administration has said it will resume nuclear testing at Christmas Island in the Pacific late next month unless a firm nuclear test-ban treaty can be agreed on in Geneva by then-which seems impossible...
...people had perished in history's fourth worst avalanche.* Only a few of the bodies will ever be recovered. The only way to get a more precise calculation of the death toll will be to take a new census of the area and subtract...