Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sum, Doris Kearns is charismatic, admired, intelligent, interesting, a great teacher, and in all aspects an asset to the university. It is absurd that she might not be given tenure because of a legal dispute with a publishing company of because of vague misgivings that she is not "serious" enough. The 1974-75 Confi-guide bemoaned the fact that Doris Kearns might someday voluntarily leave the university...
...U.S.S.R. was the first to step up military aid to the Angolan factions is unclear. But the Soviets were in the field first; they began supplying military equipment and training to Angolan guerrillas at least as far back as 1960. Early in 1975 the U.S. sent a small sum-roughly $300,000 -to one of the anti-Soviet groups. By last summer the Soviets had sharply increased their aid to the M.P.L.A. as the Portuguese prepared to pull out. U.S. experts estimate that Moscow's aid this year has totaled more than $100 million. According to both British...
...sum up, human reason persists as the best available tool to deal with complex temporal problems. Love, intuition and spirituality help somewhat but we have gotten ourselves into an economic and social interplay of forces which requires some intellectual delicacy and foresight to keep in place. Intellectuals possess substantial powers of reason and ought to be willing to use them in the denser underbrush of a complex society instead of only in its airy reaches...
Asked yesterday why minority non-teaching staff was the only area where the University fell short of projections, Leonard said, "These appointments are made at a number of points in the University. What you're looking at is the sum total of a very large number of decisions. In some areas the number of minority staff is quite representative. In others it's practically nonexistent...
...government might prod Ford to take the possibly inflationary course of speeding up the American recovery so that the U.S. would buy more foreign products. That fear proved unfounded. Said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "After the President explained our economic program, the other countries substantially accepted it." In sum, face-to-face discussions seemed to give the six leaders a better grasp of each other's problems...