Word: sum
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...fellows want to dream up worlds that can exist only in the cinema. Call their pictures dyna-movies, for they are dynamic rather than dramatic. They trade in sensation, in the jolts a moviegoer gets at seeing a villain's body blow up real good. Their impact is the sum of their special effects. And their tone is high facetiousness; the whole construct is an elaborate joke...
When a publicity-hungry guerrilla gang kidnaped miner Scott Royden Heimdal near the Colombia-Ecuador border last April and demanded a $1.5 million ransom, his family in Peoria, Ill., despaired: the sum was utterly beyond its reach. Then Marge and Roy Heimdal heard that the kidnapers had cut the ransom to $60,000, and issued an appeal for help. Over the next four days, all Peoria joined in a frantic campaign to raise the cash. Children sold lemonade; retirees held bake sales...
...only ones with bittersweet memories of the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. For two years, visitors to that city have been paying a 2 cents surcharge on hotel and motel rooms to retire the $15 million tab for hosting the party. Two weeks ago that magic sum was attained, but the surcharge remains; now the goal is to help pay for the $210 million Georgia Dome, a spanking new facility that will host the 1994 Super Bowl...
This month a federal grand jury in Atlanta is expected to hand up indictments in connection with almost $3 billion in unauthorized loans funneled to Iraq through the local branch of the Rome-based Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Although the individual credits themselves were not forbidden, their sum total violated state and federal banking regulations, as well as those of the home bank in Italy. Federal investigators are reportedly trying to ascertain if BNL Atlanta extended a credit to a British-based company accused of trying to procure for Iraq elements of a triggering device for an atom bomb...
Last year the U.S. Government gave the NEA $171.3 million to support theater, ballet, music, photography, painting and sculpture throughout America. Compared with the arts expenditures of other countries and with the general scale of federal outlays, this is a paltry sum. In 1989 France, with less than a fourth the population of the U.S., spent $560 million on music, theater and dance alone...