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Journalist Lou Cannon says the book actually "subtracts from our knowledge" of the former president.
When politicians sell a product overseas, they almost inevitably subsidize the domestic producer; this subsidy subtracts from the national economy.
Even though the games are populated by assassins and commandos, they are not excessively bloodthirsty; one even subtracts points for gratuitous kills.
The program background subtracts and normalizes raw cDNA data before data analysis and filtering in Spot.