Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just driven out of the subways into the streets, stores and homes. The investment may have been justified by the alleviation of people's great fear about riding the subways, but we should be clear that in terms of crime prevention, we do not know whether a similar sum spent on other prevention techniques, such as juvenile gang programs or better radio equipment, would or would not be a better investment in actual, overall safety...
...presumably passed a popular vote (it is on the ballot) change should come. The General Court (legislature) should decide whether to tax all books or no books at all. Right now, the way the change goes seems almost less important than the change itself. Either way the sum of money involved seems negligible. But the continued confusion--a confusion which even the bureaucrats in the state tax office admit--is foolish and undermines the confidence the people have...
...additional sum, those cops who accept pay-offs (and again, reliable estimates are not to be found) are willing to overlook a number of other offenses which may be carried on at whiskey houses -- gambling, prostitution, sale of stolen items. The general rule of thumb: add $5 per man for each additional vice...
There is no more reason for PBK to be bound by the sum of random variables numerically coded on a transcript than there is for the admissions committee of Harvard College to be bound by its applicants' high school grades and College Board scores. Grades, whether of course work, generals, or theses, are humanly devised estimates of human performances, and are therefore themselves always subject to further human evaluation...
...prolific outpouring of books, each more imaginative and important than the last. The climax, of course, was The General Theory, published in 1936, which argued heretically that economic cycles could be tamed and unemployment and inflation defeated by conscious government manipulation of national budgets, taxes and interest rates. In sum: man could control his economic fate...