Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group that really runs CBS. Following an unwritten edict from Chairman William Paley, CBS has always been fiercely proud of its image. How an executive looks is often as important as what he does. He must dress right, talk right and live at the right address. He must, in sum, always look as if he had just stepped out of Brooks Brothers and was on his way to have lunch with his former classmates at the Yale Club...
...April 29,13 days after Lance's visit to Manufacturers Hanover Trust, NBG deposited $250,000 there. The amount in this interest-free account reached a high of $1.1 million in 1976-a sum conceded to be "somewhat excessive" by one of the Georgia bank's officials in a letter to the comptroller. Yet NBG officials also noted that their bank's earlier correspondent relationship with New York's Citibank had been unsatisfactory. According to one memo, "Manufacturers Hanover was much more responsive to the needs of Southern correspondents...
...That's All Right, Mama, became a substantial local hit. So did the next four singles. By the time the last, Mystery Train, was released, Presley had connected with a deadeye promoter named Colonel Tom Parker, who landed him a national contract with RCA Records for the outlandish sum of $35,000. In the winter of 1956, not six months after Mystery Train came out, Elvis Presley released Heartbreak Hotel and sent American popular culture into a collective delirium that came, after a while, to be called "the Rock...
...balloonists ascend into the skies, the sum also rises. The standard hot-air balloon costs about $7,000, but custom-built models with designer graphics and suede-covered champagne carriers can go as high as $30,000. Insurance premiums, inspection fees and propane costs add another couple of hundred dollars. To keep down expenses, aeronauts often team up to buy an airship or they join a balloon club. Even so, a would-be pilot may have to pay up to $1,500 for lessons before he can be licensed...
...patient was kept in bed longer than required-a common device for upping hospital bills. The carrot-and-stick part of the program involves trying to persuade hospitals to draw up accurate budgets a year in advance and then to abide by them. Blue Cross will pay the agreed sum. If a hospital's expenditures exceed budget, its management will be stuck with the job of finding money elsewhere. If it keeps expenses below budget, the hospital treasury can pocket the difference...