Word: sum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the terms of the enhanced package, employees will receive two weeks of severance pay for each year they have worked for the OIT and a lump sum based on their experience...
...Bits of jewelry bristle around their necks and ears in defensive perimeters. Yet while all background detail has been excluded from these pictures--the head fills almost the entire frame--they still hint at something about the larger world. What they tell you is that every crowd is the sum of its brooding enclosures, that city life is a jam session of personal discontents...
...content of the letter is also admirable. We agree fully with the ideals behind his statement that Harvard "take[s] great care not to view people simply as the sum of their grades and test scores.... We view applicants as individual human beings with a complex set of talents, qualities, interests, backgrounds and experiences." In order for Harvard to continue putting together a class composed not just of valedictorians or students of one race, it must sometimes go beyond the numbers to experiences. Having students of different backgrounds, races and interests at Harvard helps foster an environment where students...
...been dominated by a single film, but not this year. No "Schindler's List," no "Forrest Gump," no front-runners. This year, it's a free-for-all, and it's anyone's guess who will win. So, the following is an attempt to sort out the favorites and sum up what could help and what could hurt in the race for the Oscars...
...immigrant under attack--what do we do? Stand up, fight back," though lyrically apt, did little to inform students about the nature of the controversy. But surprisingly, the rally managed to educate them in other ways. Passions ran high. A sort of synergistic fever that was greater than the sum of its parts had gripped each participant. I was personally surprised to see people, whom I know as being normally on the quiet side, start to wield their mastery of group dynamics and start chants...