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He said "a close-to-2% dividend yield makes more sense."
Gold Miners Wield Dividend in ETF Fight Carolyn Cui 2011
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He said "a close-to-2% dividend yield makes more sense."
Gold Miners Wield Dividend in ETF Fight Carolyn Cui 2011
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I just hope the police change their tune about not pressing charges on the guy for sending them on a close-to $1 million search for the boy.
In light of that six-year-old who wasn’t in the balloon… « Dating Jesus 2009
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The shore was even more remarkable seen close-to, a wide shining platform of boulder-strewn clay, fractured and crevassed as if by an earthquake, a bleak uncompromising shore.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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I do not see a correlation between the almost neck-and-neck “polls” and the nearly-or close-to one hundred thousand/sea of people e.g. in St. Louis who attend the Obama rallies– versus the fewer numbers who attend the McCain and Palin rallies.
The Early Word: The Week Ahead - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Moreover, it's important that Obama not only win, but win big, and that he bring a close-to fillibuster-proof Senate on his coattails so that he has a mandate to enact significant change.
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The Princess and the Frog is the only game in town just now, and if animators and/or assistants want to ply their trade, scale wages or close-to is the deal in 2008, take it or leave it.
Archive 2008-08-01 Steve Hulett 2008
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The Princess and the Frog is the only game in town just now, and if animators and/or assistants want to ply their trade, scale wages or close-to is the deal in 2008, take it or leave it.
Wages Then, Wages Now Steve Hulett 2008
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It had been an ugly fight, close-to, with knives, as their pistols were useless in the wet.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Despite my disquiet over the profoundly Loyalist atmosphere that surrounded us, her bubbling delight was infectious, and I found myself smiling, Jamie and myself taking it in turns to answer her questions: she hadn't seen black slaves close-to before, and thought them exotically beautiful-did they cost a great deal?
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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