31.  The business confidence index, based on a survey of business managers, is calculated by subtracting negative responses from positive ones.

32.  The Chicago Tribune, for example, canvassed former teammates of Thomas and received mainly negative responses.

33.  The confidence indexes, based on a survey of business managers, are calculated by subtracting negative responses from positive ones.

34.  The idea comes in negative response to a proposal, approved by the Port Commission, to create a faux San Francisco attraction on the waterfront.

35.  The negative responses puzzle him.

36.  The negative response, of course, came only after several Latino groups decided to make the Stern incident a big deal.

37.  There was a huge negative response in the American Jewish community.

38.  A negative response probably would spell the end of the nonprofit corporation.

39.  Asked if another meeting will be held with the Congress negotiators, Reddy shook his head in a negative response.

40.  But those two countries came back with negative responses, and Sweden said it, too, would not fill the order.