Word: amounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amount of campaign window dressing," Collins lashed out, "no amount of political endorsement by respectable names--who themselves may have been misled or incompletely informed--no amount of glib talk by college professors as advisers, and no amount of pretense can alter to any degree, or for a single moment, the true nature of a candidate's background...
...central issue, however, is Boston's abnormally small tax base, and the resultingly high tax rate. Of the twenty largest U.S. cities, Boston is the only one which relies solely on real estate taxation to provide operating funds each year. And the large amount of tax-free property within the city itself--Boston College, Boston University, Simmons College, several large hospitals, numerous churches--imposes an additional burden...
...freedom. By Christmas the two most popular people were the two analysts. Everybody wanted room on their couches. We began to form committees and seminar groups, until everybody began bitching about too much organization. Then we settled down, and in the last six months we did a prodigious amount of work...
...mankind's enemies, the tiniest and most elusive may also be the toughest : viruses. Despite recent breakthroughs, such as development of vaccines against polio, viruses still cause an immense amount of disease. There are no cures or even effective treatments for illnesses brought on by the smaller, typical viruses. These facts were emphasized last week as the American Public Health Association convened in Atlantic City, with a generous sprinkling of foreign experts to sound the keynote, "Public Health Is One World...
...Metropolitan Opera's new season started last Monday with more than the usual amount of confusion. Rudolph Bing, the Met's General Manager and trouble shooter par excellence had his hands full as six productions were put into their final form for presentation this week...