Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happened at 1,000-maybe at 100,000-stretches of street, bends in the road, unmarked dots on the newspaper maps that showed the routes of John Paul's motorcade. Each scene was different, yet each was very much the same. The sum of them was a papal visit. TIME Correspondent Jeff Melvoin reports from Uphams Corner in Boston...
Westinghouse and the Equitable Life Assurance Society have introduced an intriguing salary gimmick: they are giving their workers the choice of taking their annual raises in a single lump sum as soon as the increases are granted, rather than having them parceled out in paychecks through the year. Employees like this option because it allows them to use their raises to buy big-ticket items like cars, color TVs and refrigerators sooner rather than later, when they may cost more. But some employers fear that the practice of giving lump-sum raises, if it were to spread, might fan inflation...
...money for such films would come out of a $2 million sum earmarked for Core Curriculum "start-up costs," Phyllis Keller, associate Dean of the Faculty for academic planning, says. The Core money will go towards course development costs and addtional junior faculty for Core courses...
Runners will contribute to the world hunger organization of their choice and ask others to do the same, either by pledging to contribute on a per-mile basis or by donating a lump sum...
...programs the new agency will oversee, 131 of them come from the Office of Education. Just establishing the new department will eat up more than $14 billion of federal funds--a large and misdirected sum for a goal as vague as increasing the "visibility" of educational issues. And as the floundering Department of Energy has shown, such agencies don't have much luck in getting off the ground...