Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shame, too. This Huck Finn, while a victim of its own ambition, is always less than the sum of its parts, but you're sure to discover a number of wonderful little things in the production, even if few sustain you throughout the whole performance. And yet Thursday night's audience-many of whom were of high school age-appeared more exhilarated after the intermission than they did at any one point during the show. That too is unfortunate, because story theatre techniques can be incredibly exciting, particularly for mixed audiences of the jaded and the unsophisticated. But, this...
...five Navy players registered a 412 total, while the Crimson wound up with a miserable sum of 432 strokes. Because of the weather, only one golfer broke 80-Navy's Bill Bailey...
...from one block of marble or cast in one piece of bronze. Then the tin and cardboard constructions that Picasso made in 1912-14 provoked what has become a new orthodoxy: sculpture should be made of open and discontinuous forms, declaring themselves to be not one mass but a sum of parts...
...payments to informants, if the total of services and expenses to an informant is less than $300 in a lumpsum payment or per month, our request for such payment is handled within division 5. If the lump sum payment or monthly authorization is $300 or more, it must be approached on a much higher level. Note: If an informant is to travel outside our division and we initially go in and request expense payment of less than $300, it can be handled simply while the services payment can be requested later based on what he has produced...
...Administration battles for more military funds, its most fearsome weapon may be its terminology. An annual report to Congress by Laird concludes with one of those tidy Pentagon charts, replete with arrows, boxes and converging lines, and a title that tries to sum up the Nixon-Laird approach: FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVE OF LASTING PEACE AND FREEDOM THROUGH NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF REALISTIC DETERRENCE AND A FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY OF VIGOROUS NEGOTIATION...