The answer, I am told by government sources, is firmly negative - for reasons of practice and principle.
For example, the high-debt, negative-growth year of 1951 in New Zealand was key to the original paper's finding.
Unfortunately, none of this translates to an effect--positive or negative--on the local economy.
The gravity-defying ride will be the second of its kind in the U.S., with an unrivalled steep negative-G drop.
It is a counsel of perfection, but unions' dealings with employers need not be a zero- or negative-sum game.
The key work variable is zero-sum vs. non-zero sum (both negative-sum and positive-sum).
Aside from the original iPhone, the average one-week performance after all iPhones or iPads actually went on sale was negative-3.5%.
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Consider celery, often proposed as a negative-calorie food due to its low-calorie count, high water density, and impressive fibre content.
The negative-to-positive preannouncement ratio for the third quarter is 4.3, the weakest since the third quarter of 2001, he added.
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With such a low cash component, the vast majority of the return--positive or negative--will come from the movement of stock prices.
Since then, a lot of us (me included) have started believing that we are returning to zero-sum economics (or even negative-sum economics).
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Their subsequent arrest only reinforced people's perceptions of the Pistols - both positive and negative - and the song ended up at number two.
Thomson Reuters says the ratio of negative-to-positive earnings preannouncements is 2.6.
The IMF is forecasting continuing albeit slower growth in the United States and Europe next year, and negative -- but less so -- growth in Japan.
And his untainted-by-negative-experience eyes are much more likely to focus on how to do something he envisions than on all the reasons it might not work.
To put it in economics terms, liberty produces positive--not negative--externalities.
"In actuality there are no negative-calorie foods, " he says.
Romney was able to outspend Santorum 5-to-1 in some primaries, and his people are experts at going negative -- that's what turned things around in the key primaries of Florida and Illinois.
And the only factors that I can point to are the GDP of the previous four quarters -- again, remember the first quarter of this year, we were, I think the revised figure was negative-5.9 percent, right?
Not only are the buggers capable of creating a byproduct which can quickly be refined into fuel for vehicles, but scientists say the process is carbon-negative -- it outputs less carbon than is required to produce it.
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They, among other things, cannot have certain risky features like negative-amortization, where the amount owed actually increases for some period because the borrower does not even pay the interest and the unpaid interest gets added to the amount borrowed.
Moody's, the credit-rating agency, got publicity--for once, not negative--in January when it warned that the U.S. government may lose its triple-A rating within a decade if Uncle Sam doesn't do something drastic about the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Indeed, it may end up as a negative-margin business: If history is any guide, some companies will be willing to sell at a loss to gain market share, and there will be investors willing to finance them, at least for a while.
Mr Lerach's introduction of corporate-governance reforms into settlements helps him win round conservative judges (who, because settlements usually transfer funds from a company, already owned by its shareholders, to the same shareholders, minus fat legal fees, have tended to see shareholder suits as a negative-sum game).
You looked at -- we had the -- I think the statistic I saw, that I probably got from Dr. Romer, was that you had consecutive quarters of more than 5 percent, more than negative-5 percent economic retraction for the first time since the Great Depression.
Polling since the debate generally shows small or no shifts in the vote preference of all registered voters, but big shifts in enthusiasm, and better margins after a likely voter screen. (Pew is the exception, and apparent outlier.) Vote preferences have remained remarkably stable despite overwhelming and near-universal negative post-debate coverage of the President.
Nevada is the state with the most loans in negative or near-negative equity, and the usual sand state suspects follow (Arizona, Florida, California), but there are a few surprises on the list of top ten most underwater states.
All too often, incentive programs get misused to obtain short-term gains that have negative long-term ramifications.
But the scandals helped ruin Freed -- he was hurt by negative publicity -- while Clark divested himself of his music business interests and was praised as a hard-working young businessman, Covach says.
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