Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selecting their office space, since the wrong choice can add up to five miles a day in their walking routine. "If you end up in the far corner of the Longworth Office Building, you're dead," warned Talisman. He also helped Congresswoman Jordan go over the résumés of some 200 applicants for jobs on her staff; like many other first-term Representatives, she did not know most of the applicants or the people they cited as references...
...Settimio Garritano (for, she claims, "more than $34,000 and less than $51,000") and saved them for the rainy day of Playboy's Italian appearance. Others put the price far higher and far lower. The Italian newsmagazine Panorama purchased two black-and-white reproductions for an undisclosed sum. Exclusive rights to the portfolio were being hawked in other European countries and the U.S. for fees reportedly as high as $62,000. By week's end, the sole confirmed taker was Paris' France Dimanche, which says that it paid only the "usual price" and promises to airbrush...
...paragraphs missing their conclusion, and Brecht's moral purpose is lost in the disunity. A sardonic comedy deeply involved with modern man's anonymity, it loses its own identity. Much is lively and comic in this production. And, at appropriate moments, its serious concerns glower through. Unfortunately, the sum of these very fine fragments is a dubious and unfinished total...
Written evaluations. This system requires each teacher periodically to sum up a student's strengths and weaknesses. Such evaluations risk being excessively subjective, however, varying widely from one teacher to another...
...heard constantly from him before the movie broke," he said, but when the elder Gortner saw the film, "it was all I could do to choke back tears. Now he's told so many untruths he's afraid to face me. There never was such a sum. If it was money I was after, I'd have been in another business." Why, then, the movie? "Somehow," said Gortner, "he came under the influence of Satan...