Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stations listened attentively during October while the AEC made underground tests in faraway Nevada. The rock waves came through all right, but not quite as strongly as had been anticipated. At distances above 700 miles, only explosions of more than 20 kilotons could be identified clearly as manmade. To sum up, said the panel, the 180-station detection system might be confronted by 1,500, not 100, natural seismic shocks a year that could not be distinguished from an underground test explosion. This number would presumably overburden the checking system as presently outlined...
...First, he coolly downgraded the ineffectual, sacred-cow national oil monopoly, by inviting foreign oilmen to develop Argentina's petroleum resources. The first new well came in last week, beginning a program that eventually will save Argentina the $300 million it spends each year for foreign oil, a sum roughly equal to its whole trade deficit. Then Frondizi freed the artificially pegged peso to find its true value, discarded much red tape that distorted and paralyzed Argentina's foreign trade. A fortnight ago, to help shore up the peso and make the economy more productive, U.S. Government...
...annual report to the Board of Overseers, Pusey pointed out that this sum--"inadequate...as it necessarily is"--equals more than half of the $11,595,-688 received from tuition charges...
...grim years of cold war, a truly effective U.S. foreign policy is the work of decades. It is the sum total of crises met, of potential dangers recognized and countered, of national hopes and aspirations projected in hundreds of big and little policies. Success is measured in the sharpening ability to counter the probing actions before they become big offensives, in the growing frustration and confusion of the enemy, in the degree of popular will-to-win at home. Ultimate policy goal: to wrap up the political, economic, military and moral meanings of the U.S. into the sort of grand...
...Beyond specific skills and techniques, veterans have a certain sense of confidence for having worked at their generation's job, learned some of its toughest lessons as youngsters. Hollywood Writer-Director Richard (The Blackboard Jungle) Brooks, 46, a Marine rifleman in the Marianas campaign, tries to sum up one tough-minded discovery. "Before...