Word: sum
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...these works, most of which include unusual found objects and shards of ancient pottery. "Our Lady of the Seas" incorporates shells that the artist's daughter collected for her on a Panama beach. "Thirty Pieces of Silver," as the title suggests, highlights coins surrounding a cross, representing the sum of money for which Judas betrayed Jesus...
...that's the scientific point of view. Satisfied? Probably not. To most people -- with or without Ph.D.s -- love will always be more than the sum of its natural parts. It's a commingling of body and soul, reality and imagination, poetry and phenylethylamine. In our deepest hearts, most of us harbor the hope that love will never fully yield up its secrets, that it will always elude our grasp...
...point was not that participation is dwindling, or even that the sum total of Harvard's expenditures on athletics is too small. We were more concerned about the inequalities that coaches and athletes cite in the disbursement of those funds, and about the fact that the exact figures are kept secret...
...joking of course (wasn't he?), but it did pretty well sum up the mess...
...earlier inveighed against federal red ink from any soapbox he could find, the U.S. went from being the world's largest creditor nation to being the world's largest debtor. When Reagan took office, the budget deficit was about $74 billion, and the national debt (i.e., the sum of all previous deficits) was nearly $1 trillion. In three years the deficit had soared to $200 billion; and when George Bush steps down, he will leave behind a projected fiscal 1993 deficit of about $340 billion. Today interest on the debt consumes 20% of the federal budget, up from 15% four...