Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Council members said last night that they are no longer worried refunding the entire sum would hurt the council's finances...
...number of downsides to this phenomenon. One is that some audiences--primarily older folks, younger children and minorities--are being ignored. Another is that some series--the late Northern Exposure, for example--end up choking on their own quirky intelligence, crowded with characters who are less than the sum of their arbitrary tics. A third drawback is that seemingly every other character on television is now a white young professional who lives in Manhattan and goes out on unfortunate blind dates; bizarrely, all four of NBC's high-rated Thursday-night comedies (Friends, The Single Guy, Seinfeld and Caroline...
...whole institution and community make certain on the one hand, the people who choose to stay can continue to be active and productive...and at the same time ensure a flow of younger people into the system?" Rudenstine said. "It's pretty much a zero-sum game in appointments...
...extreme, Rudenstine points out, would be to pay every faculty member a large sum to retire. The other extreme would be not to bother trying to induce faculty to retire. The challenge, he says, is finding something in the middle...
Software mogul Bill Gates' privately held Corbis Corp. purchased the Bettmann Archive and its 16 million photographs and illustrations for an undisclosed sum in the millions of dollars. Corbis has already bought nonexclusive electronic rights to thousands of images from several world-famous museums for digital conversion...