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- noun Plural form of
positive .
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Examples
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Selling the negatives and hiding the positives is a really bad strategy.
Matthew Yglesias » How the White House Health Plan Compares 2010
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January 1st, 2010 at 2: 15 pm the issue of false positives is the key issue.
Matthew Yglesias » Very Rare Terrorists Are Very Hard to Find 2009
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The purpose of the statistical policeman is to separate the true positives from the false ones.
Freeze - Statistics Police!, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Three negatives with no positives is an automatic F -.
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THE GOOD NEWS: Former coach Kirk Speraw became the school's winningest coach last season and, to hear him tell it, there were more positives from the season than it appears at first glance.
Conference USA 2010
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While stressing the long-term positives of Egypt, he talks at length about the potential of Africa as an investment proposition, emphasizing its abundance of natural resources, favorable demographics and untapped growth.
Weathering Africa's Storms William Lyons 2011
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THE GOOD NEWS: Former coach Kirk Speraw became the school's winningest coach last season and, to hear him tell it, there were more positives from the season than it appears at first glance.
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Investors should expect the same positives from the likes of Goodrich, Hexcel, Spirit AeroSystems, Rockwell-Collins, AAR Corp. and other more diversified civil aviation parts contractors such as Moog, Curtiss-Wright and Teledyne.
The Aviation Boom Market Rick Whittington 2010
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This crisis will be remembered for generations by Pakistanis -- and the long term positives that could emanate from a robust, humanitarian response combined with an international TVA-like commitment to managing this watershed could neutralize the current high-fear, tense regional dynamic.
Steve Clemons: Bolder Initiatives Needed on Pakistan Floods 2010
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This crisis will be remembered for generations by Pakistanis -- and the long term positives that could emanate from a robust, humanitarian response combined with an international TVA-like commitment to managing this watershed could neutralize the current high-fear, tense regional dynamic.
Steve Clemons: Bolder Initiatives Needed on Pakistan Floods 2010
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