My reckoning is it will subtract a couple of tenths of a percent, so we will have first-quarter GDP at 1.5 percent instead of 2.0 percent,
We add all our net costs together and subtract sales to other utilities. In a good month where we sell a lot of power credits, we're able to pass that savings on to our owner-customers.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
I'm sure there will be thousands of new jobs. But the question is whether they subtract jobs from people working nearby.
So far, our numbers look to be about the same as last year, if you subtract the 300 or so kids from Hurricane Katrina. We won't have our true count until early October.
Economic growth is slowing, and exporters are already suffering. It is a certainty that fourth-quarter net exports will subtract substantially from GDP growth while the current account deficit will widen further.
As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction.
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
Whereas in past years there has been a hundred dollar deductible and then you have to subtract ten percent of your adjusted gross income. That's not the case anymore for the hurricane victims.
When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'