Word: sum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gordimer has never acquired the luxury of believing that private lives can proceed in a political vacuum. The stark choices imposed by apartheid allow no such privilege. And so the three characters who meet in the lobby of a recently desegregated movie house in Johannesburg represent more than the sum of personal discomforts caused by this encounter. The father and son are "colored," as determined by South Africa's laws, and the woman in question is white...
...sum, this show bites off more than it -- or you -- can chew. But it makes you want to go to Mexico, to know this culture better, and on its own terms. As cultural diplomacy, it is a vivid success...
...reform of our economy must begin, alas, with taxes. The fact that America bears a smaller tax burden than other developed countries is not conclusive: perhaps the others are doing it wrong. Still, as a nation we are reluctant to pay for what we -- the sum of all our various constituencies and interest groups -- want. At the same time, we don't get adequate value for the taxes we do pay. So tax increases must be balanced by severe cuts in expenditures, especially entitlements for the better off, plus farm and other subsidies. But a mere split-the-difference deal...
...press for publishing the work in its current form. The story of how the book came to be, for many, reads as follows: A murder is comitted. A family greives. A friend grieves, investigates, writes and sells 400 pages of recollected family conversations, letters and grief for a sizeable sum...
Overall, the team's four-man scoring sum was a 643, totalling the rounds of Kinkaid, Foster, Dave Miller and freshman Lou Body. Overall winner Central Connecticut State carded...