Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence, Anne-Marie admitted phoning the Lozada home six or eight times a week "to hear his voice." Amused but unmoved, the court convicted her of "injuring with premeditation," gave her a four-month suspended sentence, fined her $180 and ordered her to pay her ex-lover a similar sum. Lamented Anne-Marie's lawyer: "How low love has fallen in the land of love." Not all that low. As of last week, Anne-Marie was talking seriously about moving to a house just 200 yards from Lozada's in the fashionable Paris suburb of Neuilly...
...sum of money can ever compensate a child for having been born without arms, without legs, or with invisible and irremediable defects in his heart. But money can at least ease the incredibly difficult and costly task of training such a child to develop fully the use of his limited powers. Last week the German manufacturers of thalidomide, the most disastrous drug in medical history, recognized that fact. As compensation to the parents of all the thalidomide-deformed children surviving in West Germany, they offered a lump-sum settlement totaling 100 million marks ($27.3 million...
...last week, few of the aggrieved parents were bothering to attend the monotonous hearings. But time was also working against Grünenthal. Its key executives had been confined to the courtroom for 200 trial days, unable to attend to business. Also, the setting aside of a large sum of money for possible settlement costs reduced the funds available for research and development. Clearly, it was time for new tactics...
...additional issues is already scheduled for offering later this year. The total does not include A.T. & T.'s recently announced plan to raise about $3 billion, half of it with stock, over the next five years. Mutual-fund cash reserves are 7% of total assets-a modest sum in a bear market-and margin credit has declined steeply as investors have found that they need their money to meet the rising cost of living...
Naturally, not everyone agrees. While the Administration continues to counsel patience with its policies, economists have begun to wonder whether there may not be a better way to stop inflation and its related woes. In sum, is a recession really necessary...