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McKinney led the incumbent by 13 percentage points for the second runoff slot.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
“This implies that firms expect their wage growth to decline by 0.8 percentage points over the next 12 months,” the BOE said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Recent polls have shown that an implausibly high percentage of Germans -- between 11 and 18 percent -- think their grandparents tried to help those being persecuted by the Nazi regime, Spohr noted.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Between that March and the following January, a month after joining the index, Tesla beat the S&P 500 by an incredible 860 percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
When administrators sought to determine which departments were most guilty, they found that in each department a higher percentage of women applicants was admitted than men applicants.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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