Word: sum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Skating in the Dark proves too mathematical, because everything fits precisely. There are moments replete with empathy and vividness, but Kaplan's collage of these separate events from one man's existence do not add up to a sum worth reading...
...perceiving daylight, the Democrats forget that in politics the whole rarely equals the sum of the parts. The fact that most people are mad about something most of the time does not usually add up to a willingness for change, especially when an incumbent President is seen to have secured the nation's peace during his tenure...
...States of America, a daring experiment in democracy that in turn became a symbol and a haven of individual liberty for people throughout the world. But the revolution that began with his voyages was far greater than that. It altered science, geography, philosophy, agriculture, law, religion, ethics, government -- the sum, in other words, of what passed at the time as Western culture...
...because we do not have enough savings -- again the tendency toward the short term. Yes, because economics is not a zero-sum game. Growth can create new resources. We have seen in the past, in Europe and in the U.S., that if you invest you can create more wealth than you started with. I am sure that in Europe at least, growth, far from depriving the Third World, will create more opportunity for growth elsewhere...
...police were tipped off that a couple in the Bronx were keeping their daughter chained to a radiator, they moved in, figuring that they would be rescuing the girl and preventing a tragedy. Maria and Eliezer Marrero were hauled off in handcuffs; bail was set at $100,000, a sum fit for a murderer; and their daughter Linda, 15, landed in a foster-care center in Queens...