Word: sum
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...nothing less than the creation of a Palestinian state, which is huge," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. That explains Netanyahu's recalcitrance, and his contention that Israel's soldiers are going nowhere until Arafat also abandons plans to declare a Palestinian state in May. "In the zero-sum game that the peace process has become," Beyer says, "for Israel this visit has to be seen as a defeat." For Arafat, though, even a failed round of peace talks has rarely seemed so sweet...
Stopping by woods on a snowy day, three men discover a small, crashed plane that contains a dead pilot and a large sum of cash. They devise A Simple Plan to make off with the loot, and we are obliged to watch that plan unravel for what seems to be an eternity...
...impudent filet challenged the oldest principles of mathematics by proclaiming that it obtained 102.1 percent of its calories from fat. In other words, there were more calories from fat than there were total calories in the food. Like some entertainment-industry "synergy" mergers, the part was greater than the sum of the wholes...
...When you sum up the powerful effects of moderate exercise on the health of older people," Rowe and Kaplan observe, "it is hard to imagine why we aren't all out there working up a sweat." Fred Piccini is doing just that--and it's paying off. On a family vacation this summer with children and grandchildren in Georgia, he found himself running and jumping on rocks right alongside the kids. He says, laughing, "I felt so much energy that I forgot...
Jones cried when she heard the news and said, "It's over, I'm glad," while her supporters called the huge sum a de facto apology. Clinton allies countered that it was simply a cost-effective way to get behind him a case in which the President always maintained his innocence...