Word: amounting
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Actual figures as to the amount taken were notimmediately available. Cambridge Police saidyesterday they have no suspects and they are nowsearching to determine if there is any linkbetween this robbery and those of the CVS Pharmacyand the Jewelry Gallery in the Garage mall
Like Cry Freedom, it follows the struggle of a white South African man who suddenly wakes to the injustice of apartheid. Also like Cry Freedom, the movie spends a disproportionate amount of time on the problems of whites instead of Blacks...
Adopting a variant of the British exam system would also ensure accountability. At Oxford and Cambridge, students complete a large amount of study without exams and then undergo a comprehensive evaluation at the end of their programs. If Harvard were reluctant to accept foreign exam scores, it might allow students to leave for a year and then take one or two broad exams upon their return...
Though Ingersoll concedes there is some financial risk, he argues that "launching the Sun is likely to turn out on an investment basis to be the best deal we've ever made. For the same amount of money, I could buy something boring that I've done umpteen times over that has the potential to earn, pretax, perhaps $2 million. The Sun has the potential to earn 15 times that. So from a risk-reward viewpoint -- which isn't why I did it -- it makes sense. From a creative viewpoint, it has a lot to do with how our newspapers...
...Alaska tragedy shows that no amount of money and finger pointing can compensate for a disaster on the scale of the Exxon Valdez spill. Once the oil got away, there was no way to clean it all up. Alaskans can only hope that the cleansing storms of winter will continue the scrubbing that Exxon merely started...