Word: sum
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Indeed, the best aspect of the consent decree for colleges may be that it ended a massive two-year series of investigations and negotiations that was costing a pretty penny: Princeton vice president Robert Durkee estimates that the eight universities have spent a total sum of more than $4 million already in legal and document costs...
...establish a loan program with a base sum of $1,000,000 to rend money to small landowners for structural improvements to their rent-controlled properties...
...Thernstrom has observed, minorities, especially those from low-income backgrounds, have entered graduate schools in large numbers only recently and are more likely to take high-paying jobs after graduation than to pursue less lucrative careers in teaching. Thus, the scramble to sign minority scholars has become a zero-sum game in which the participants compete over a tiny selection of candidates and win only by snatching each other's faculty--or worse, by lowering hiring standards...
...sewage," says Health Minister Camilo Gonzalez Posso of Colombia. "Until we attack those fundamental needs, we will always be vulnerable to tropical diseases turned plague." But according to the WHO, providing safe water and sewage treatment in Latin America could cost $50 billion over the next decade -- a staggering sum for countries that are already deeply in debt and struggling with the problems of crushing poverty...
...researchers from the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, sent there to soak up everyday life and find out what people are thinking in the place code-named Laskerville. They are eavesdropping at school-board meetings, at the local cafe and even at funerals (they say the eulogies really sum up the town's values). The ad people have gone to great lengths to blend into the scenery, leaving their fancy cars back in Chicago and driving pickup trucks. One agency executive was almost unmasked when a coffee-shop waitress took a good look at her and noted that her expensive...