• But as a matter of simple arithmetic, if the banks don't lose and Greece gains, there must be an additional subsidy in there somewhere from eurozone governments, either in the "high-quality assets" provided as a back up or, possibly, the promise of preferential treatment for these new bonds in the event of a default.

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  • My point is that his clever arithmetic, even if his fingers were crossed behind his back, can do real damage to his less sophisticated audience.

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  • The most likely way this electoral arithmetic will change is if the two main parties win back votes from the smaller parties, whose share of the vote, at 30.6%, is at a high.

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  • From such elemental if commands are built complex arithmetic calculations, violent videogames and programs that do your income tax returns.

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  • Nice, but here's the grim arithmetic of roller-coaster returns: If you lose 50%, you can't make it back by gaining 50%.

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  • Calculations by scientists, who are forever totting up times but are often bad at mental arithmetic, will also be much easier if they can just move decimal points instead of multiplying and dividing.

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  • And yet Republicans and Democrats agree that if any campaign can overcome the daunting arithmetic, it's Obama's.

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  • If that sounds paradoxical, do the arithmetic.

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  • In addition to straight arithmetic errors, the IRS can scan tax returns early on to see if there are any mismatches on filers' names, Social Security numbers and other data they can correct.

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  • If he does not, then Germany knows that the harsh budget arithmetic in the new Stability and Growth Pact will not add up even for France - let alone the likes of Spain.

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  • If not, a sequence of tests using a type of mathematics called modular arithmetic is carried out.

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  • If it does not try to win them over, however, the electoral arithmetic means it has almost no chance of governing, however long it can cling to power.

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  • If in the seventies, some students argued that pocket calculators made it senseless to do arithmetic by hand, now the very value of sole authorship is called into question.

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