Word: sum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when a New Orleans court ruled that a girl who was conceived after her father's death via his stored frozen sperm is entitled to the father's Social Security benefits. The lawyer for the family said the decision, which may be appealed, could mean a $9,000 lump-sum payment and about $700 per month to the girl after that. Judge Elving Torres ruled that despite being born nearly a year after her father died, the girl is clearly her father's child and entitled to all benefits...
...France, that's a huge sum of money to beawarded in a libel suit," Jardine said...
...Never has so much been paid by so many to so few," said Britain's Daily Mirror after the government announced it would buy WINSTON CHURCHILL'S papers from his heirs for $20 million. The sum (paid for mostly by proceeds from the national lottery) appalled some historians and politicans, who claimed the 1.5 million documents-which include Churchill's letters to his mother, an American, and drafts of his famous speeches-are public property...
Berman, with the help of his agent Barbara Zitwer, sold the novel for a six-figure sum to Larry Kirshbaum, the president of Warner Books, at the Frankfurt Book fair in Germany, according to a press release...
...footage of his actors later to advance the plot, Van Peebles jeopardizes his credibility as an historian. Already treading a tightrope between fiction and reality, this method of "historicizing fiction" puts the viewer on guard. Although the fictional documentary footage is noncontroversial and works well as a device to sum up Panther activities, its contribution to the effect of a documentary is somewhat duplicitous...