Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked for only $1.5 billion over the first two years of its ambitious new five-year plan. In a move that startled the club's other members, the U.S. upped the ante, offered to put up $1 billion singlehanded-if the other club members would match the sum. Jolted and impressed, the other members (Canada, West Germany, Britain, Japan) sped home to check their exchequers. Last week they not only came back with matching pledges, but also with a new member for the club: France. As a result, the six nations and the World Bank will provide India with...
...relationship between the U.S.'s 5,500,000 Jews and the proud state of Israel (pop. 2,115,000). But even broader and greater was an old issue revolving around the meaning and purpose of Jewry. Is Jewishness a religion, a nationality or a peoplehood? In sum: What...
...summit conferences, and similar fetishes of U.S. policy. He is considerably less convincing in his case for the relatively "moderate" Russian line, and there seems to be a distinct danger that belief in such moderation could become the kind of inflexible tenet that Kennan himself considers so dangerous. The sum of his advice to the U.S. is to keep talking to the Russians while watching and waiting -but he never suggests what to watch and to wait for. He merely pleads over and over with Americans to stop being inflexible and moralistic and start being relativist and realistic: "We must...
...probably come out of this league a millionaire. Or the Colts' Gino Marchetti, owner of a string of hamburger hutches; Alan Ameche, proprietor of six restaurants; and Tommy McDonald, at the tender age of 26, is a director of an Oklahoma bank and also gets a handsome sum from a Southwest bowling alley just for the use of his name...
...present uncomfortably high rate of unemployment (6.8%) is expected to continue for some time. Particularly disturbing is the behavior of inventories, which are not turning around as quickly as economists had hoped. Inventory cutting in the first quarter continued at the rate of more than $4 billion, a sum that would immediately be pumped into the economy if only manufacturers stopped subsisting on their stocks and began...