Word: summed
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Going back to Moscow, I don't know what the new year will bring. Interested in numerology, I note that the sum of the figures in 1992 add up to 21, the winning number in the American card game blackjack and the Russian card game * ochko. I doubt that we will be lucky in the new year, but I wish you luck in yours. Maybe we'll both be lucky...
...Clancy, The Sum of All Fears
...Clancy, The Sum of All Fears
...through illusion, yet his holdings included the London Daily Mirror, New York City's Daily News and Macmillan, the U.S. book publisher. In assembling his web of 400 companies, Maxwell piled up debts, apparently without unduly alarming the dozens of banks and other lenders that let him borrow a sum now estimated at $7 billion...
Another unusual source: the unemployment office. In an adventurous experiment, the states of Massachusetts and Washington are letting the jobless use their unemployment benefits as startup capital. Instead of paying the participants the usual biweekly unemployment checks for six months, Washington State gives them one lump sum. In its Self-Employment and Enterprise Development project, 450 jobless workers since 1989 have collected lump-sum payments averaging $4,200. Among the SEED startups: a plumbing business, a money-management firm, a landscaping company and a tanning salon. Ronald Wilmoth, 43, used his $7,000 check as part of his financing...