"If you expect a 3% rise in income and you get 2.5%, you're disappointed, " says Ken Goldstein, an economist at the Conference Board, a private research group in New York.
The probability of a tie (or, if the voter count is odd, a one-vote margin) would be the probability that when you flip a coin 5.2 million times you get exactly 2.6 million heads and 2.6 million tails.
Book value at 1.84 makes this less of a value than the other 2, but you get a 2.97% dividend.
You get just 2 gigabytes of file storage, there's no Web browser or email program like Outlook included, and you can't install additional software.
So you want to get close to 2, which is the best you could do.
You can get up to 2 GB of free storage just by signing up and up to 18GB by referring new users.
For the money, you'll get a 2.3GHz i7-3610QM Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, an NVIDIA GTX675M GPU, a 1.5TB 7, 200RPM hard drive and a 400-nit, 17.3-inch, 1080p display.
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You don't get much dividend yield off this--it's around 2%--but you do get that 5% share buyback.
Or, he said, if you are delinquent for 8-10 months you can get modified into a 2% rate, but that was obviously not for me.
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Advantage: If you can get by on just the dividends plus a 2% withdrawal of capital, you are likely to leave a nice pot for your heirs.
Is there wiggle room in how you get that revenue from the top 2 percent?
If the growth line continues downward you get right back to 0.2% per annum we had prior to the Industrial Revolution.
"It's just strange to be so wealthy on paper, and all you get out of it is a 2% return, " sighs the 45-year-old Roe.
But you will get Cerberus Network for Mass Effect 2 and the Online Pass for Mass Effect 3.
Add in a 2% dividend yield and you get to 20%.
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This is a company that pays a little under 2% in dividends, so you get some money in your pocket.
Building an icebreaker that can get through 2 yards of ice, now you're talking serious icebreaking.
If you're on Android 2.2 or above get ready for an update to your Android Market experience.
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We should not say you're not going to get a tax hike unless the wealthiest 2 percent get a tax cut.
Add that 2 percent to what might happen otherwise and you would get hopefully the kind of economic growth that could bring down the unemployment rate.
You get what you pay for--a dog's nose has 2 billion odor receptors, 40 times as many as a human's--but there are limits to what even the military is willing to spend on an animal.
In 1080P you get a much better sense of where the graphics are at in Dark Souls 2 compared to the original game.
Multiply a 1 in 2 chance that Ohio picks the winner by a 1 in 2, 900 chance that each vote in that state is decisive and you get the 1 in 5, 800 chance.
But if you look at data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) you get a much different picture, one in which Saudi Arabia currently produces about 1.2 million barrels a day more than Russia.
With Wal-Mart you get an awe-inspiring company at 13 times my January 2014 earnings estimate, with a 2. 2 % dividend yield.
As you can see from the video we managed to get our hands on one of the new Wave 2 Lightcore Skylanders.
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Obama has selected Mary Schapiro as the new chairwoman of the SEC, and if you read into Obama's TARP 2 announcement, mark-to-market is about to get tossed.
While you might not see Android 4.2 before Google moves on to the next letter in its OS alphabet, you can get Jelly Bean's Quick Settings feature via a new app from AntTek.
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