Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disastrous inflation has made many pensions tragic jokes; some workers have accepted lump-sum payoffs of only $35. Nevertheless, Chileans are solidly in favor of the benefits; the number 4054 has become sacred...
Under his new dictatorial powers, Mossadegh, himself a wealthy landlord, abolished centuries-old feudal dues and services, and ordered landlords to turn over one-fifth of their rents to the impoverished peasantry. Half of this sum will go to the sharecroppers on each tract. The other half is to be deposited to the credit of local, peasant-run cooperatives which are to be set up in each village to provide low-interest loans, tools, irrigation facilities and drinking water for the peasants. Point Four men on the scene applauded the scheme...
...enough to make a strong man weep. My marriage ended seven years ago." (He was locked out of their house in October.) Since then, he said, "she has been my wife in name only." Billy recalled that he offered her a "generous" cash settlement and "an equally generous sum of alimony," even though it was less than the temporary $700 a week she is getting now by court order...
...Democratic platform does not address itself to the American people as a whole. Unlike progressives of an earlier day, Fair Deal Democrats conceive of politics not in terms of "the people" versus "the special interests," but in terms of the people as the sum of innumerable "special interests...
...Gompers used to sum up his ambitions for labor in one word: "More." Murray's goal-although he does not like to talk in terms of ultimate goals-is much wider and deeper...