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Net
The gain or loss on a security sale as measured by the selling price of a security less the adjusted cost of acquisition.

net
1. For the closing transaction in a security, the difference between net proceeds from the sale and the total outlay for the purchase.
2. See net income.


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Numerous studies such as What Work Requires of Schools (Department of Labor, 1991), the Falling through the Net series (Department of Commerce, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000), Building a Workforce for the Information Economy (National Academy, 2001), and "Preparing Future Technology Users" (Granger & Lippert, 1998) posit that computer skills are increasingly required to enter the workforce.
Even as computers become more central to our society, minorities are falling through the Net.
Irving initiated and was the principal author of the landmark federal study, Falling Through the Net, which tracked access to telecommunications and information technologies across racial, economic, and geographic lines.
 
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