Word: sum
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According to Peimer, the ASGF has collected some $500 to $700 to date. However, she said at the project's inception, the intent of the project was not to raise a large sum of money, but rather to have a more symbolic impact...
...endowment is a large sum of money. One must certainly account for the considerable wealth of the University when making such important judgments...
...survival of Adams House's character, for example, a good institution thrives and many students benefit. Furthermore, Harvard University, by perpetuating its traditions, continues to be an institution that contributes to world progress. However, there are trade-offs, and Harvard institutions do not always respect that they are the sum of their parts; that is, the students who make up the institution are the important thing, not simply the viability of the institution itself...
...ridiculous as the sum might sound, especially in comparison to the $21,000 Pitino made in his first year at B.U. in 1978, he may be worth it. First, $7 million a year is less than any decent superstar makes in basketball or baseball, and basketball coaches have found in recent years that when they say it's either him or me, the owner invariably says it's you, since your guaranteed contract is much smaller...
...something more was involved than Nuland's experience and surgical skill. The patient survived, he believes, because of her will to live. This instinct, the product of eons of evolution, is evidence to the author that humans are greater than the sum of their 75 trillion constituent parts, their cells. Some readers will see the miracle of mankind as proof that a Creator exists. Nuland does not. His surrogate for spiritual piety is awe and wonder at the mystery of the human spirit and the marvelous economy of the physiology that embodies...