Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard has gotten $400,000 for its involvement, but this sum is only to cover expenses, and Leahy is hard put to say just what Harvard expects to get out of the project...
...Great War and that time of great optimism that followed it are coming to represent some old America, a gone America, an American attitude denied the generation following them. Can anyone think it is more happenstance that this class produced Henry Kissinger and James Schlesinger, who together form the sum of our foreign policy and our national security. It is breathtaking and scary as hell. Maybe it is time to be represented by people who don't think in such terms when there are no victories left for anyone anywhere. A society that feels itself called upon to go shouting...
...Laurent has begun probing alleged security violations by 36 interlocking development and securities sales companies that did business in the Fort Myers area. By his estimate, investors in Lee County alone were bilked of $50 million. The loss by noteholders throughout the U.S. could reach $350 million. Even that sum could be dwarfed by the losses suffered by people who bought lots. In many cases, developers sold lots for about ten times the $200 to $400 they had paid for them in new "developments" that could not be built because they are partially under water even during the dry season...
...said: "To sum up, we have decided not to turn away from the problems of black Angolans by selling out Gulf shares...
...shooting has stopped in Vietnam, but My Lai, free-fire zones, napalming citizen populations, massive bombing of non-military targets, torture, herbicidal warfare and "forced-draft urbanization"--in sum, the tactics used by the American war machine in Indochina--all raise moral and legal questions that did not go away with the victory of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. The war crimes issue lingers, despite the silence of liberal and conservative politicians, and the American future that Ford says he will now concentrate on cannot be so easily separate from the sins of so recent a past...