Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CLINTON: First of all, that assumes this is a zero-sum game. I don't agree. I think some things will produce higher growth than others. Second, as I have said, there are people who believe you can have growth now and fairness later. We tried that in the 1980s. We thought we could starve our consuming class and get growth and everything would be great. And it didn't work out very well...
...competition is expected to raise "close to $1000," equal to the sum donated last year by the event to the homeless shelter, Families in Transition, according to Decresce...
...produced. Chief among these is the idea of Lautrec as a cross between isolated genius and man of the people, whose deformity (and the sense of outsidership it fostered) resonated with his marginal subjects -- the whores, dancers, cabaret singers, the proletariat in search of cheap lurid pleasure, in sum the Montmartre demimonde -- to produce a truly "compassionate" art. This is largely a sentimental fiction, as Thomson argues in detail in the show's excellent catalog...
...institute. She is trying to make ends meet. They still enjoy the comparative comforts of a country dacha, a limousine and 20 bodyguards, but life as private citizens has proved hard, the couple told a Sipa Press interviewer. Gorbachev's monthly pension is 3,900 rubles, once a princely sum but at current exchange rates worth only $60. Says he: "Last month we calculated we'd spent 3,900 rubles. That's all my pension...
...fact, many servicemen and -women do have a choice: between volunteering to leave in exchange for a "copper handshake" severance package and waiting to be sacked and getting less attractive benefits. A staff sergeant with 10 years service, for instance, can choose to leave with a $28,100 lump-sum payment or a $4,700 annual annuity over 20 years. But if the same sergeant does not volunteer, he or she can be separated with one-third less pay. "It's a terrible decision to have to make," says Staff Sergeant Stephen Underwood, a gulf-war veteran who has decided...