By contrast, in fat-tailed distributions, the median is extremely small compared to the mean, meaning that the probability of infrequent events is enormous.
The 2.20 score indicates more than two standard deviations above the mean, meaning the Niners were more than twice as good as a typical NFL team that year.
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Lions boss Ian McGeechan has made seven changes and one positional alteration, meaning mean just four players will have started all three Tests: fly-half Stephen Jones, scrum-half Mike Phillips, skipper Paul O'Connell and No. 8 Jamie Heaslip.
The names take on new meaning and mean only one thing: be prepared or get out of the way.
Profit margins, he says, are mean-reverting, meaning that at times when margins are high, investors should be willing to pay less per dollar of earnings.
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So let's stop attacking the Affordable Care Act because it will mean that we -- meaning individual Americans -- are paying for health care.
This is also coming on the heels of one of the last unofficial weeks of summer, as August wraps up and September begins, meaning last-minute vacations could mean lower volume.
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And what I mean, be allowed to take it up, meaning simply getting unanimous consent to have a debate and a vote.
After that it becomes very human and pleasantly complicated as they start redefining for themselves terms which used to hold a single meaning in a 9-to-5 world, but now mean for each one of them something unique.
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It would mean an increase of 10% in the company's malt whisky distilling capacity, meaning 5 million litres of additional spirit each year.
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Meaning: well-managed companies will get happy employees, but that does not mean that choosing to make your employees happy as a goal in and of itself will get you a better organisation?
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In the mean time, investors are left to feel out which assets those are, and how to interpret the meaning of such a large sale.
To make this work with auto layout, the meaning of the top, left, bottom, and right edges within a scroll view now mean the edges of its content view.
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In discussing Islam we mean generally more or less what Muslims do in practicing their faith-tradition as they variously understand its meaning provided primarily in the Koran taken by them to be divinely revealed words to Muhammad.
Moreover, our ancestors saw meaning and intention ("agency") in these patterns: They took rustling in the grass to mean that a predator was intent on eating them.
However, the key here is that bond yields have fallen the last two days (meaning prices have gone up) because if Congress were to actually do something about the debt it would mean slower economic growth, a less aggressive Fed, and fewer bonds in the market.
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