Students needed a score of 1550 out of the total 2400 to indicate college readiness, defined as a 65% chance of maintaining at least a B-minus as a university freshman.
The A3 e-tron has similar level of sportiness to a Mini Cooper -- minus the feeling of being in a go-kart.
The rating agency has a BBB-minus rating with a negative outlook on India.
Thus a 24-year-old new to a pension plan should save 12% of their earnings - minus any contribution their employer makes - and a 40-year-old new to retirement savings should pay 20%.
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James Steel, precious metals analyst at HSBC, said one positive sign for bullion prices is a recovery in the gold-implied lease rates to minus 0.30% from a year-to-date low of minus 0.57% on Dec. 6.
With a toothy grin, Khil delivers a clearly lip-synced performance minus lyrics, instead using a series of made-up syllables, including the "trololololo" that captured the hearts of millions.
Fitch Ratings also has the sovereign on BBB-minus with a negative outlook.
But Juve will still start next season in Serie B on minus 17 points - a penalty some fans fear the team will struggle to overcome.
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With stock picking, or just handholding, from a pro you could expect the same results--minus 1% a year for his services.
Mr Bhalla also takes issue with a suggestion that the Reserve Bank adopt an exchange-rate target a band of plus or minus 5% around a currency-weighted rate.
Its A-minus rating just makes investment grade, but Aetna is a huge generator of free cash flow.
"I really have to play better, " said captain Alex Ovechkin, who recorded only one shot and was a minus-1.
Their only weakness, she said, is that Fox News viewers tend to be older -- a minus for advertisers.
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Myers has a minus-9 rating and 12 penalty minutes in 11 games.
The "Tartan Tax" - plus or minus a maximum of 3p of income tax, levied upon the standard rate only, not the upper rates - was simply too limited for credible use.
But reading and listening to the political debate about UK economic policy, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the most important economic decisions the government makes are all fiscal: Will they or won't they press ahead with Plan A, or Plan A-minus?
Players' handicaps are based on a scale of minus-2 to 10, with 10 the best.
Lisa Schwarzbaum over at Entertainment Weekly gave the batch a B-minus.
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The Scottish Premier League leaders, minus Kevin Thomson after a last-minute appeal against a suspension was turned down by the Scottish FA, looked increasingly disjointed after the break and struggled to put pressure on the home goal.
Michael Campbell wondered if it was because they wanted to rest before next week's Presidents Cup - the Ryder Cup-style US v Rest of World minus Europe - although he himself does not appear to have a problem with the extra work.
Mahathir, of course, did not bother to wait for a third quarter of minus-5% growth before imposing currency curbs, which allow him, at least temporarily, to reflate the economy without collapsing the ringgit.
Pew estimates that net migration -- newly arrived immigrants minus those leaving (forced or voluntarily) -- has come to a standstill, which it attributes to the weakened U.S. job and construction markets, border enforcement, an increase in deportations, and increased dangers associated with crossing the border.
Without such intervention net new mortgage lending - gross new home loans minus repayments and redemptions - would fall below zero in 2009 and see only a modest recovery in 2010, he said.
Previous estimates suggesting depletion rates as high as 50 billion tons of ice per year were exaggerated by a plus-or-minus 20 billion ton error.
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But the BLS itself admits a key component of this statistic--estimates of jobs added at small businesses just opened minus jobs lost at small ones just closed--tends to exaggerate employment in a slowdown.
As a result, Mr Parry finds, the net benefits of a road-specific peak-period fee (the gain of less congestion minus the cost of disrupted travel) would be about three times bigger than a petrol-tax increase calculated to curb congestion by the same amount.
When our predawn wakeup call came the last morning, the receptionist told me it was minus-12 degrees--and said this without a hint of dismay.
What's clear from that table is that you see in 2009 there is a bump up in spending in that category because of the Recovery Act, which again was necessary to -- a key part of moving from minus 5 percent to more than plus 5 percent on economic activity.
The German ZEW indicator rose by 1.4 points to minus 53.8 in December, breaking a nine-month downtrend.
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