Word: summed
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...with an extraordinary opportunity to take further protective measures, assess remaining problems and mollify resentful citizens. Instead, the deal has touched off a chorus of outrage from residents and environmentalists, who wanted a minimum of $2 billion, and has ignited a fierce debate over how best to spend the sum. Says biologist Rick Steiner of the University of Alaska: "The last thing we want to see out of this is a stack of studies, symposia and who knows what else...
...many islanders still balk at the notion of a return to Japanese sovereignty, but most agree that the holdouts are losing ground. Says a fisherman in Kurilsk: "We live in barbaric conditions, and our government will not help. Who would not agree to Japan's offer for a good sum of money...
...M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow published an influential book called The Zero-Sum Society. This became a notorious phrase. Thurow's critics, mostly conservative, accused him of suggesting that the American economy could not change or grow. Thurow's point was, rather, that at any given moment society's resourcesTIME
...atop buildings, destroy houses and vaporize mobile homes, impale yachts on pier pilings and even strip paint off walls. With winds up to 164 m.p.h., Andrew proved more expensive than Hugo, which ripped through the Carolinas in 1989, and more destructive than any of the recent California earthquakes -- in sum, the costliest natural disaster in American history...
...Clinton-Gore appeal is that corporate buzz word, synergy: when the images of the two are fused in the public mind, the sum appears greater than the parts. "There's a lot of discussion in our focus groups where people are excited about the two of them together," says Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "It translates into an anticipation of energy and activism in the White House." Maybe so, but this Doublemint campaign could be reaching its natural limits -- too often the artful tactics of late summer turn into tired cliches by Election Day. Still, there is a chemistry between Clinton...