Word: summing
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...results of a later classification performed by us for particular needs." The classification or categorization is made for its utility, for its survival value; this should recall the influence of Darwin. Animals do not have a sense of self--they live in a state prior to Cogito ergo sum. So do infants. And this leads at last to Freud and his developmental scheme. "The id," Freud writes, "contains everything that is inherited, that is fixed in the constitution--above all, therefore, the instincts, which originate in the somatic organization and which find their first mental expression...
Some groups, however, are not attractive risks for private insurance plans. To provide for these people, service plans were devised which emphasize obtaining complete care rather than minimizing financial risk. For a fixed sum, service plans will provide an individual or family with complete medical care...
Everybody knows that Howard Hughes puts a high price on privacy, but no one ever guessed that it was worth $145 million to him. That is the sum that Trans World Airlines has sued him for-and the sum that a federal judge's ruling last week put in jeopardy after Hughes steadfastly refused to appear in court. Hughes's shyness, ruled the judge, was a "deliberate, willful default...
...Mayor John F. Collins and Sen. John E. Powers, President of the Senate, the measure would raise an estimated $10 million annually, which would be used "to provide supplementary aid to cities and towns for municipality services rendered to private, non-profit educational institutions." $3.6 million of the sum would go to the city of Boston...
...sum, for an American who is ready to take the initiative, the intellectual life at Oxford is still in many ways the most stimulating in the world. If he doesn't accomplish enough academically the fault lies with on one but himself...