Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plight of the elderly is a novel problem for Japan, a country where for centuries age was equated with wisdom and filial respect was a sacred responsibility. Now the young no longer seem to care. In fact, Japanese girls often sum up the qualifications of an eligible boy friend in a cynical cliché: "lye tsuki, car tsuki, baba nuki" (with a house, with a car, without an old lady). "To our old folks, all this proves shocking, depressing and downright exasperating," observes Professor Soichi Nasu, a sociologist at Tokyo's Chuo University, who specializes in the problems...
...colleges that adopt it. Northeastern officials estimate that co-op education enables them to maintain a campus only two-thirds the size that would otherwise be necessary for a student body as big as theirs. And their co-op students earn some $25 million a year; if that sum were needed for scholarships, it would require an endowment of several hundred millions. With such benefits available, financially pressed educators can hardly help regarding the co-op movement with increasing favor...
...each one came due for renewal. In defense of their inheritance, the villagers of Bsharri retained New York Lawyer George Shiya, a Lebanese-American, and Shiya won the long legal battle for them. Then he claimed his agreed-upon fee-25% of all royalties from the renewed copyrights, a sum that could amount to perhaps $1,000,000. At a cost of still more legal fees, the Bsharri villagers fought Shiya all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. They lost that scrap four years...
...Petersburg, Lola got a "private audience" with the Czar, who gave her 1,000 rubles for services rendered. In Dresden, she got Liszt, the great lover of the age, and so wore him out that one night he locked her in a hotel room and fled, leaving a substantial sum to pay for the furniture he knew she would break. In Paris, she got culture and a taste for liberal politics in the company of Balzac, Lamartine, George Sand, Victor Hugo, and especially Dumas père. She found the great love of her life, however, with a talented radical...
...action at the Council meeting last night, a motion appropriating an extra $3000 to the Mayor's account for the "National Search for a City Manager" was passed 5-4. This sum is in addition to the $5000 already spent on the search...