Examine your budget to actual comparison and your spending year to date.

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To date, this hopeful comparison has fallen down because Russians lack that heritage of civic faith that tinged the mind of even the most rapacious of America's tycoons.

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While you impatiently await important information, like pricing and release date, check out the comparison chart after the break.

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But for weeks, I held my breath as we comparison shopped as the days until my closing date ticked away.

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This was a valid comparison on December 31, 1998, the date to which BofA Merrill Lynch has retroactively created its new index.

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After that date, (we) never lost a benchmark (comparison) and by the time I left, (we) had won 21 in a row.

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