Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business is apparently too small to maintain financial equilibrium. A concession operator must do about $5,000 worth of business to make a 15 or 20 per cent profit worth the time he spends at the counter, Burke estimated. Most House stands have been unable to reach this minimum amount of trade...
...compensation offer to $43 million, and the Sudanese were happy to accept after getting a greatly increased share (18.5 billion cubic meters v. 4 billion in the 1929 pact) of the increased water supply to be accumulated when Egypt's Aswan High Dam holds back the vast amount of wasted water that normally goes down into the Mediterranean every year. The successful talks were capped with a tidy $31 million bilateral trade agreement. General Abboud cried, "Thanks be to Allah!", and a grinning Nasser sent his mabruk-"Congratulations!"-to the negotiators...
...there is this year, in addition, an increased amount of attention towards policy questions and topical economic issues in both courses, a reflection of the prevalent belief that meaningful economics on the undergraduate level should relate, as Smithies said, "to the great public issues of the day." In practice these two elements--the analytical tools and the social framework in which they must fit--still remain divorced in these courses, but at least the attempt is being made to integrate them...
...House galas such as the Christmas party and the spring musical, visiting scholars, and House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time. I spend some hours at the polls now, but I no longer am able to lobby at the State House. Winthrop House and its problems have pretty well taken over...
Similarly, scientific professors, especially members of the exclusive Academy of Sciences, are comparatively "big men" in the Soviet social scale. Doty likened them yesterday to top-level American executives in the amount of reward they reap from society, which Van Vleck commented on the large number of cars and chauffeurs they have. As Doty pointed out, "In Russia science is an area where you receive according to your ability...