Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same characters playing the same emotional parts: the domineering old woman, the haplessly childish daughter, the faintly struggling son-in-law. Each family anecdote would make a good (if somewhat bloated) New Yorker sketch. But, because only members of a family have limitless interest in family idiosyncrasies, the sum of Before My Time is interminably less than its parts. With skill at re-creating the rich past, Tucci has hand-tooled a glittering vintage automobile. It is a perfect replica, with genuine brass driving lamps and a burled walnut dashboard. All it lacks is a motor...
...different countries in terms of U.S. dollars. According to these statistics the average Japanese laborer receives a paycheck one-eighth the amount of that given to an American and one-third the amount given to a British worker. But this comparison is unfair. The real truth lies in the sum of goods and services the Japanese laborer can acquire with his wages, in terms of real returns, compensation in Japanese export industries is equal to that given in Western Europe and one third of that paid in the United States...
...sum, the lawyers learned, life with an imaginative, volatile, high-risk driver is likely to be more stimulating and interesting than with a conventional plodder−but also shorter...
...Rising Sum. For the sixth straight year, the world's largest companies outside the U.S. were two giants under joint British-Dutch management: ROYAL DUTCH SHELL (sales: $5.6 billion) and UNILEVER, LTD. ($4 billion). But the biggest gains were scored by Japanese firms. Sales jumped an average 23% for the ten Japanese companies that made the top 100 in both 1960 and 1961. Three did outstandingly well: HITACHI, LTD., an electronics manufacturer, climbed from 17th place to eleventh in the standings, largely on the strength of rising demand in Japan for its telecommunications equipment; YAWATA IRON & STEEL advanced from...
...tended by and large to depend on relations for support) die out, and as the effect of the huge expansion in company retirement plans makes itself felt. Today there are some 22 million employees covered by private pensions, and an estimated 1,000,000 are added yearly. The total sum paid out on pension plans in 1935 was only $100 million; last year it was $1.8 billion...