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Federal deficits subtract from national saving by absorbing funds saved by households, businesses, and other levels of government that would otherwise be available for investment.
Trust in God can generate diverse conclusions, but this does not subtract from the obvious way in which, at the time, faith in God and the Bible nourished the radical claims of human equality.
However--Boy and Girl Scouts that we are--we subtract this double counting in the figures we report.
Let the signal obtained at spot number i from hybridization with the probe derived from muscle mRNA be denoted as H i . It may be represented as the sum of a background signal B i due to hybridization solely to the polyA segment in the spot, plus the gene-specific hybridization H i ', i.e., H i = B i + H i '. If we knew the background polyA hybridization B i , for example, by inferring its value from hybridization with the oligo(dT) probe, we could subtract the polyA background to obtain a corrected gene-specific hybridization signal, i.e.
In general, federal deficits measured on a NIPA basis represent dissaving-they subtract from national saving by absorbing nonfederal funds that otherwise would be used for investment.