Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number (very odd), and an early square. It is a 6 on its head, a circle and a line, the highest digit and the last, with something of the darkness that attaches to last things. Yet it has strange magic in it. Multiply any number by 9, and the sum of the digits will also come to 9 (7X9=63; 6+3=9). Reverse the digits, and the number you get (36) will also be a multiple of 9. Take any number you choose (4,321) and divide it by 9. The remainder you get (1) will be the same...
...credit -- a form of financing only a bank can do -- in favor of the seller or the seller's agent and arranges to ship the parts. Because B.C.C.I. is a large bank, it can afford to pay off the seller immediately, then turn and collect a vastly larger sum from Iran...
...severe budgetary restraint, they charged, made scientists seem petty and self-serving and suggested that they are out of touch with the country's political realities. In fact, only last year congressional budgeteers agreed to limit spending growth for domestic discretionary funding, in effect making science a "zero-sum" category. This meant that increases for one scientific project, for example, might have to come out of the hide of another...
Ryan says this near the beginning of Clancy's sixth novel, The Sum of All Fears (Putnam; 798 pages; $24.95), which, because of its weight and bulk, will probably not become a runaway best seller; it will become a lumberaway best seller...
...characters sound exactly the same). Presumably, hundreds of thousands of readers will wade through this interminable novel to find out if Jack Ryan can once again save the world. What they should know before they begin -- not that it will make the slightest difference -- is that The Sum of All Fears is the mother of all potboilers...