As expected,Republicans voted against the bill while all Democrats and two Independents voted for it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

I computed the returns on the stocks, bonds, and oil for every year from 1983 and I computed the average returns, which I take as the expected returns, I took the standard deviations, and I took the covariance.

我计算了从1983年以来每年的股票,债券和石油的收益，从而得出平均收益率，这些平均收益率作为预期收益率，然后算得标准差及协方差。

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Orders for commercial airplanes are expected to be lower this year, as airlines cope with an expected America's Boeing executives in Dubai put on a brave face, saying that fulfilling back orders will keep their production lines busy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15