Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ingram refused to say whether this action was connected with the amount or type of missing uranium or the circumstances of its disappearance...
Samper, a lawyer and economist, contends that if growing had been legal, Colombia last year could have saved the $120 million it spent on trying to stop it and also collected taxes of $168 million on the huge amount of pot, worth an estimated $1.4 billion wholesale, that was smuggled out of the country. Further, Samper calculates that the estimated 30,000 grower families get only 8% of the earnings of the trade; the rest goes to smugglers and middlemen, most of them North Americans. Legalization, says Samper, would both spread the pot wealth better and rid Colombia of much...
...will "provide the maximum amount of access, safety and convenience to people coming to see the pope at a minimum of disruption to the city," White said. The city is providing more than 1000 parking spaces for buses and is arranging extra off-street space, he added...
...they fear the law, and similar proposals in other states, because it may increase the costs of administering the tests. After all, if the tests are public, the service won't be able to recycle questions, forcing someone to sit down every year to write new analogies. Considering the amount of money "non-profit" ETS clears each year, though, the added costs of questions, mailings and even Xerox copies shouldn't force them out of business. ETS's real fear may be that scrutiny will be to standardized tests as hurricanes are to the Dominican Republic. Public availability...
...Harvard's defensive backfield is probably the only area in which the team could enjoy a reasonable amount of depth. Joe Restic shudders a bit as he says, "We can't afford to get anybody hurt. Our drop-off is so great (from the first to second string...