Currently, two writers from each of the 14 American League cities will name up to 10 ball players and allocate a weighted point system to each spot on the ballot where the names of the candidates appear.

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She lay down on the bed, her feelings concentrated at the forefront of her mind like an immensely weighted black point, incomprehensible.

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For the same reason, I think Arnott will have a hard time maintaining his percentage-point lead over the cap-weighted Russell 1000.

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The weekly on-balance volume (OBV) made its high in February but formed a lower high in May (point 2), just barely making it above its flat weighted moving average (WMA).

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For now, the European economy does not seem to be doing too badly, though Lehman Brothers reckons that every 5% rise in the trade-weighted euro shaves about a quarter of a percentage point off growth and inflation.

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