QUES: Only the Intel Corporation has a lower dividend yield .

Only Intel Corp. ' s 0.3 percent yield was lower .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: yes

QUES: IDEC shareholders would own 50.5 percent of the stock of the combined company , and Biogen shareholders the remaining 49.5 percent .

The companies said Idec holders would own about 50.5 percent of the stock of the combined company .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: no

QUES: Recall backers say they have collected 1,600,000 signatures , approaching twice the 897,158 needed to force an election .

Recall proponents say they have turned in nearly twice the number of necessary signatures .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS:
yes