It selects the 50 companies that have passed the previous criteria--and have the highest dividend yield.
If they can't distinguish between the two, the computer is said to have passed the Turing test.
Turnout has risen in states that have passed the voter ID laws, with no adverse impact on minorities.
Rowe Price, Alliance Bernstein, and Federated Investors have passed the hurdle of ETF approval from the SEC.
India believes it would not have passed the Indo-American nuclear deal last year without their help behind the scenes.
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Seven possible contenders have passed the mandatory Kazakh language exam and have been approved by the Central Election Commission.
Luckily our building is one of the few which have passed the test, but it still remains in the dark!
In other state-funded schools, people employed as teachers have to have passed the relevant qualification - known as Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
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Like the bill that ultimately comes back from the Senate, he could have passed the compromise bill with support from more conservative Dems.
Many of the job proposals that I've laid out have passed the House and are soon going to be debated in the Senate.
Colegrove believes that 3D printers have passed the "disillusionment" phase that comes when a new technology fails to match the hype of inflated expectations.
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By 2030, when all baby boomers will have passed the milestone, 18% of the nation's population will be at least that age, Pew projects.
They say more than 1, 100 pupils who have passed the 11-plus have to travel for an hour to Tunbridge Wells to their nearest grammar school.
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Both men have passed the second condition needed for victory - at least 25% of the vote in more than half of the 47 counties.
If your website is up-to-date, you have passed the first hurdle.
The latest example comes from Texas, where state lawmakers have passed the kind of campaign disclosure bill that Congressional Democrats have tried but failed to impose.
Stand your ground was unveiled by the National Rifle Association at a 2005 ALEC gathering and since the initial meeting, 24 states have passed the law.
So when people start thinking about brand encounters that were once considered business as usual as momentous occasions, you know marketers have passed the tipping point.
The complex algorithms that gave AAA ratings to debts that should not have passed the smell test demonstrated all too well the futility of knowing too much.
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An additional 390 are in the queue, which means they have passed the screening and are eligible, and are in the process of providing documentation to get enrolled.
This must be a little like the pioneering days of steam or aviation: the earliest creations have passed the first credibility test and now the big powers of industry are getting interested.
Bond investors have bailed, its banks are on the brink and politicians have passed the grimmest budget in its history, but Facebook still believes in putting more money (and staff) into Ireland.
Now that the peak floods appear to have passed the main industrial areas around Bangkok factory owners will be assessing the damage and starting the process of getting their facilities back on-line.
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Those who don't lose money have passed the added costs off to consumers in the form of a fuel surcharge that will slowly but surely raise the cost of doing business in America.
It said it would have passed the test if regulators counted a debt-equity hybrid, called "silent participation", as a capital reserve, but the EBA, having initially said it would accept this, then changed its mind.
Peter Medgyessy, the Socialists' prime-ministerial candidate, a former finance minister with experience as an economist and banker, will depend on the support of the liberal Free Democrats, the only other party to have passed the 5% threshold.
The report which was submitted to French President Nicolas Sarkozy late last month concluded that unless something changes, Iran will have passed the nuclear threshold by the end of 2009 and will become a nuclear power no later than 2011.
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