Unfortunately, none of this translates to an effect--positive or negative--on the local economy.
With such a low cash component, the vast majority of the return--positive or negative--will come from the movement of stock prices.
Their subsequent arrest only reinforced people's perceptions of the Pistols - both positive and negative - and the song ended up at number two.
The key work variable is zero-sum vs. non-zero sum (both negative-sum and positive-sum).
They tested their treated materials with Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, the gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria that are always giving humans a bad day.
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The problem for U.S.-dollar-denominated investors is that return has been mostly lost in translation as the supportive fiscal and monetary policy strategies announced by Abe have been equity-market-positive and yen-negative.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, there have been significant reductions in mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the U.S. Research has also shown that progress is possible through targeted prevention programs that are effective in reducing risky behaviors among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women.
The impact of the Ryan pick -- whether positive or negative as we will soon find out -- will only be worth a few points in either direction on the national stage.
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VACS, a study that includes HIV-positive as well as HIV-negative veterans, follows participants over time and evaluates the health of veterans.
In other words, if we train our brains to be optimistic or pessimistic -- to navigate, intentionally or not, the streets and avenues of positive or negative feelings -- we change (just as cab drivers do with their spatial circuits) the emotional circuits in our brains that determine how we respond to the things that happen around us.
Earnings are also a focus so far today as both Wal-Mart (positive) and Hewlett-Packard (negative) results have crossed the tape.
The folks at Netbase, a company that collates online opinion and sentiment, sent me a couple of graphics on overall reaction and what surprises me is not the positive-negative split, though that is interesting.
The survey asked whether people think that hip-hop and rap are a positive influence on society or a negative influence on society, and majorities of all groups - blacks, whites and Hispanics - agreed that hip-hop has had a bad influence on society, most particularly the rap portion of hip-hop.
By focusing on ensuring at least a 10-to-1 ratio between positive actions they want users to perform (click-throughs) versus negative actions (unsubscribes), companies can be conscious of monitoring both the good and bad results of each email sent.
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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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Thomson Reuters says the ratio of negative-to-positive earnings preannouncements is 2.6.
To put it in economics terms, liberty produces positive--not negative--externalities.
Dr Wood suggests that positive self-statements cause negative moods in people with low self-esteem because they conflict with those people's views of themselves.
According to a 2010 study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, the ratio of positive to negative evaluations is twenty-five hundred to one.
John Coplans, on the other hand, chose Type 55 film (which yields a black-and-white positive and negative) in the 1980s to record his own stolid nude body in interlocking blocks of hairy flesh, self-portraits that owe something to Henry Moore and Philip Guston.
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Positive outlooks exceeded negative credit outlooks for Fitch-rated sovereigns, at 14 and 8, respectively.
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The study found that teens are much more likely to say that social media has a positive impact than a negative one on social-emotional well-being.
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The consensus would shuffle from mildly negative to neutral and then to lukewarm-positive.
Feeling underappreciated is, in large measure, a numbers game: If you limit your exposure to negative inputs, positive ones become over-represented in the total number you receive.
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BrandIndex scores range from 100 to -100 and are compiled by subtracting negative feedback from positive.
Short-term margins did improve, going from negative to positive, which is great, but almost all attributable to cost cutting, not growth.
The researchers found that there were a lot more positive than negative stories, an echo of the well-known tendency for stockbrokers to issue more buy than sell recommendations.
This is a long-term trend that will have both positive and negative implications.
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According to Lehman Brothers, positive surprises in the third-quarter results are outpacing negative ones by almost five to one.
What is the temperature rise, after the effects of both positive and negative feedbacks, from a doubling of atmospheric CO2-e?
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