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But in the years since, evidence has been mounting that the college-wage premium may not be a reliable metric for students and families to use to make decisions about their post-high-school plans, because the divergence in value between degrees in different subjects has become so wide.

Statistics Canada data shows the total volume of rail freight carried in Canada hit 30.2 million metric tons in August, up 4.5% in year and slightly above the five-year historical average of 30.1 million tons in August.

Argentina now will get to export 80,000 metric tons of beef per year, or 176 million pounds per year, at a tariff rate of zero — representing a quadrupling of a prior quota, according to Walter Kunisch, a senior strategist at HTS Commodities, a division of Hilltop Securities.

That is still a huge proportion, but what the metric disguises is the importance of Anglo-American industry, air and naval power in bringing the Third Reich to its heels, either directly or via Lend-Lease shipments to the U.S.S.R.

That month, the sentiment metric dropped to an index value of 52.2 before recovering during the summer.