Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue was not the only controversy in which Harvard Treasurer Bennett revealed his view of how Harvard should handle its investments. Harvard's tenth largest investment sum is placed in stock of Middle South Utilities, one of whose subsidiaries, Mississippi Power and Light, employs only 4.5 per cent black employees in an area where 50 per cent of the population is black. Investigations of two other Middle South subsidiaries-Arkansas Power and Light and Louisiana Power and Light-conducted by the Equal Opportunity Commission, revealed similar employment practices. One EEOC official said, in releasing the employment figures, "it is difficult...
Nixon's testy reply raises a further question: Even if he does see all kinds of people, does he listen to them? If he does not, his staff cannot help him. And even if he does listen, the sum of what he hears will not necessarily add up to the ultimate form of communication with the country, which is leadership; only an inner certainty can provide that. In Mandate for Change, Dwight Eisenhower argued: "Organization cannot make a genius out of an incompetent; even less can it, of itself, make the decisions which are required to trigger necessary action...
...that the views of what Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex are not invariably wrong. Rather, he says modestly, "they do have a disproportionate influence on the decisions made by the Executive Branch of the Government." Nevertheless, even in an age grown numb to waste and stratospheric numbers, the sum of Proxmire's indictment is damning -and frightening...
...inflation in our future than in our past because of our bipartisan commitment to high employment. Signs of economic weakness will get a faster Government response than in the past, and both business and consumers know it. This assurance will give an upward bias to wages and prices." In sum, businessmen and consumers will go on spending during a slide because they will take it for granted that the slump will be short-lived...
Local observers also fear that Harvard would like to sell the land for a tidy sum that could be used handily in Cambridge. Condemnation would allow Harvard to sell out without jeopardizing its rights to the land under the will of Ernest G Stillinan who donated the land...