Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production quotas were assigned to achieve a price of $21. That's what our "friends" the "moderates" wanted. Saddam wanted $25. The difference between $10 oil and $21 oil means, for the U.S., an extra $33 billion a year for oil imports. That doesn't even count an equal sum paid to domestic producers, or the dampening effect on the economy...
Japanese money is invested everywhere, from Tokyo skyscrapers to RJR Nabisco junk bonds to shares in Britain's newly privatized water companies. The scope of the Japanese surge abroad has been breathtaking. In 1984 Japanese banks held a little more than 20% of international banking assets, meaning the sum of all outstanding loans. Today the share is almost 40%. "There is hardly a major deal put together anywhere in the world that does not include Japanese banks," says J. Brain Waterhouse, a British securities analyst in Hong Kong. "It used to be that 1 out of 4 banks involved...
Only it isn't the newcomers who are suffering most. Hundreds of low-salaried Israelis, many of them young army veterans, have been turned out of their homes in favor of newcomers who are given a lump-sum payment of $11,000 for rent and other expenses. Landlords, realizing new immigrants have the cash, double and triple prices and require a full year's payment in advance. Poor Israeli families can not compete. "The landlords prefer the Soviet immigrants," says Yossi Hurja, 27, who was forced to move when his rent was raised from $350 to $420 a month...
...sum, Bush is basically a decent man whose decency, unfortunately, is about an eighth of an inch thick; a man whose personal decency masks, rather than enhances, his public role; a good person, if there's no reason not to be, but a sucker for a Faustian bargain. He can be had cheap -- political convenience will certainly suffice. And that's not nice...
...that the incongruous fact that the corporate logos generously splashed all over the screen have already parlayed themselves into commercial advertisements and promotional gimmicks in the real world, and you have the sum and substance of Days of Thunder...