Word: sum
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...schedules to raise money for Phillips Brooks House by way of a classical music concert. Lim said that he was "inspired by the letters [which followed] Four Seasons asking to see [Scott] again," The letters make him hopeful that the show will be successful enough to raise a substantial sum...
...Harvard students and employees will likely be eligible for a $100,000 lump-sum payment if they "become HIV positive" as a result of a University-related activity, officials said this week...
...Chicago working for Louis Sullivan, the most important American architect of the time. Hired as an $8-a-week draftsman, Wright asked for a 125% raise within a few months and quit when he was refused. Sullivan quickly capitulated and was soon paying him $60 a week, a preposterous sum for the time. All his life, no matter how much he made (and borrowed: friends and patrons lent him thousands of dollars at a whack), Wright felt poor, thanks to an unhesitatingly indulged taste for swank -- chamois underwear, high-performance sports cars, whatever was gorgeous and rare...
Harvard currently designates enough money forone ethnic studies professorship. Standardpractice, however, is to divide the sum to fundseveral visiting lectureships, said Buell...
...dispute the horror of Rodney King's beating by four Los Angeles police officers last year. But assigning it a dollars-and-cents value has proved far more contentious. Last week King rejected the city council's first public offer -- a guaranteed $1.75 million, including a lump sum of $250,000 and a lifetime annuity of $75,000 -- to settle his lawsuit. The council, after a closed-door session, in turn spurned a settlement bid by King for $5.9 million. Next stop: the U.S. district court, where King's federal civil rights case will be tried...