Word: summed
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Empathy has also suffered from what has been called the "disuniting" of America, the balkanization of our ethnic melt, the belief that each group should seek its own interests in the zero-sum game of political power. This rising cult of ethnicity is promoted by intellectual ideologues of different nationalities who insist on defining community and belonging strictly in terms of religious, ethnic or sexual identification...
...noblesse oblige society needs a new calculus. Our social interests are not merely the sum of our individual interests. They are our social interests, our political interests, and they are riddled with conflict between individuals and governments and corporations and classes...
...sum, the contest provides little incentive for otherwise apathetic students to hike across the river. For those of us who aren't big sports fans, the prize of athletic tickets is not particularly appealing...
Without the immigration reform bill, Belgian-born beermaker Pierre Celis, 66, would probably never have launched his new brewery near Austin. By his estimate, the Celis Brewery should cost $7.5 million before the first pale beer starts to flow, a sum he says he would not have invested without the assurance that he could stay in the U.S. to supervise the business...
...skills," says former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, co-author of The Immigration Time Bomb. "We're the only country in the world that brings in whole generations of poor people every year." The Federal Government estimates that investor visas will generate $10 billion over the next five years. That sum will only be raised if at least 3,000 investors enter the country each year. By mid- September, immigration officials had received only 100 preliminary applications. Some argue that the policy also threatens some cherished notions about fairness. "The whole implication is that if you're poor and uneducated, America...