This means the athletic department profit number is probably the most reliable in terms of direct comparison.

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But Jean Le Sieur, executive producer for newsmagazines and talk shows at France 24, tells us that the most impressive number of all yesterday was probably the turnout.

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Averaging the CPI and the EPI gives us a rate of 5.6 percent, a number most New Yorkers, and probably most Americans, would consider on the mark.

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And probably most meaningful, we really like the dividend yields you can get on a number of stocks now.

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It's fairly easy to be a charter member of the Tom Lehrer Club, which probably embraces a fair number of the intellectual classes and has sympathizers even in the most surprising families.

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Now, in most of those cases the audits will probably turn out to be legitimate, but I bet that a number - that enough of them will be at least questionable to keep this story going for a long time.

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Winning back trust probably also depends on what happens if the assets are disclosed, as most people assume that not an insignificant number of officials have far more assets than they should be able to afford on their government salaries.

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