Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like committed infractions of far less magnitude and quantity than Richard Nixon, the fact that they got away unscathed only allowed succeeding Presidents to abuse their power further. Lasky is right: it didn't start with Watergate-Nixon's list of abuses was only a sum total of what had been going on for years...
...bail hearing, Ullo's bond was cut to $250,000, but he was told that if he managed to post the sum he would have to report to a U.S. marshal twice a day, every day. At week's end Ullo was still behind bars. That was surely a relief to Witnesses Connor, Zander and Petzold. All are in protective custody after alleged death threats by Ullo. They have more reason than most to remember that two victims of the .22-cal. hitters were FBI informants-and four others were potential prosecution witnesses...
...usual hospitality, as much for pecuniary reasons as politeness: a pot of money comes to town when a big-budget movie crew arrives. It is not uncommon for the movie company and crew to spend more than $1 million on lodging, food, props, local extras and other labor. That sum generates nearly four times as much spending power as it percolates through the local economy-and the hosts incur few offsetting expenses. Says Ray Gosnell, vice president for production management at 20th Century-Fox: "There is no need to build roads or schools for us as the case would...
Young prodigies in art are as common as seagulls; the rarities are old. A special aura clings to the late works of old men who can sum up a lifetime's deposit of knowledge in a final burst of invention. One thinks of Rembrandt's late self-portraits, of Titian at 90 or Bernini at 75; or, in our century, of Henri Matisse, who died in 1954 at the age of 85. The last two decades of his life were increasingly spent on making works in paper. Ensconced in the south of France, first at Nice and later...
...currently 1,762, is virtually the same as three decades ago. With many newspapers already devoting from one-quarter to one-half of their news space to syndicated features, more and more syndicates are fighting harder and harder over the same territory. It is a giant zero-sum game. "If somebody wins, somebody loses," explains Dennis R. Allen, president of the (Des Moines) Register and Tribune Syndicate. "If a newspaper adds eight new comics, it cancels eight others. It's highly, highly competitive...