These figures add up to more than the total appeals figure of 35, 359 because some pupils will have had both their reading and writing papers submitted.

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It is typical to hear one comment on consumer spending, investment spending, and profits as if they are all part of what you add up to get the GDP total.

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In probably the most thorough regulatory budget, agency tallies would add up to a total regulatory budget paralleling the fiscal budget.

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And we could stop there and add up the national total each year to see if well-being has improved.

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Note that stock based compensation and corporate expense are not allocated to the geographies or retail so that the numbers do not add up (as you can see by the companies total operating margin declining 620 basis points in the fiscal third quarter but all of the geos are less than that).

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Add that money to the tab, and total discretionary domestic spending is up closer to 30% from 2008-2013.

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They add up to disposable personal income, and then other adjustments are needed to take you the rest of the way to total GDP.

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