In 1970, the typical salary in the financial industry was about the same as for equivalent positions in the rest of the economy.

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"Practice starts during the weekend had shown that the dirty side of the grid was so lacking in grip that a car would lose up to a second in the 350-meter run to Turn 1, equivalent to two positions, " James Allen, a Formula One commentator for the BBC and the editor of jamesallenonF1.com, wrote in an email.

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According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the American regulator for commodity futuresmarkets, the increase in short positions over September was equivalent to 470, 000 barrels of oil.

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