Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faded quickly. The House Judiciary Committee acted with remarkable dispatch and agreed by a margin of 30 to 4 to clear the way for a vote by the full House on the bill this week, followed soon afterward by a vote in the Senate. Approval of a large sum is certain, perhaps even more than Ford requested, though the final figure was undetermined. Thus the most divisive period in U.S. history seemed to be ending on an unusual note of near unanimity between the White House and Congress...
...nation's crisis is the product of a vicious circle of industrial inefficiency, labor indiscipline and overly ambitious welfare-statism. The British government now spends an average of $2,320 annually in social and health benefits for each member of the work force, a staggering sum in a nation where per capita income is only $3,085. The high taxes necessary to finance these benefits have helped drain away funds needed for the modernization of Britain's overaged and decrepit plants; industrial production in the past three years has risen much less in Britain than in any other...
...decisions came in small and private moments for the most part, the sum of the man's education, family background, experience, his ideas about courage and American tradition. Finally it was simply his "feeling...
Whatever the eventual solution to the problems of where to house undergraduates, however, it is equally clear that the physical plants of most Houses, especially in the Quad, are in need of a healthy sum of money for renovation...
Daniel Steiner '54, General Counsel to the University, said Monday that he "isn't 100 per cent sum" but thought that an interviewer "probably shouldn't" indicate an applicant's race on his report. He said that there is a "grey area" in the law on this point, but added that he thought it permissible for a student to volunteer information on his race...