Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court dealt a staggering but not quite final blow to the death penalty in the U.S. Though all nine Justices wrote separate opinions, the sum controlling view appeared to be that most capital-punishment sentences were cruel and unusual because those few who faced the penalty were singled out in a "freakish," "arbitrary" and "capricious" manner. Supporters of capital punishment concluded that one way around the court's ruling would be to make death the mandated penalty for such crimes as first-degree murder and first-degree rape. Next Monday the Justices...
Bird is at her weakest in overstating the financial advantage of not going to college. She plays games with statistics, arguing that if a high school graduate invested the equivalent of four years' college costs in a lump sum in a savings bank and went to work, his lifetime income (including compound interest) would exceed the earnings of a college graduate. The greatest fallacy in that line of reasoning is the fact that high school seniors do not have the $25,000 or $30,000 representing their college costs in a lump sum to invest. Nonetheless, Bird is correct...
...there was a substantial profit to be made. Gone are the blue jeans, love beads, marijuana pipes, and Jimi Hendrix; In are velvet pants, platform shoes, sports coupes, and Jim Beam. Yet there remains the glibness of the cultural representation, be it theater or cinema, that attempts to sum up in a concise, marketable statement the spirit of the times...
Harvard's flaws are no less apparent to transfers than to four-year students but it's easier for transfers to resist being spoiled by Harvard because they're seen other places. "The Harvard experience isn't college, it's Harvard," says Barton and that seems to sum up the experiences of most transfers...
...entertaining series of short stories about his experiences at the track. That's not so unusual--all horse players love to tell stories of close finishes and amazing upsets. What makes Beyer's yarns different is that they each contain a moral, an underlying piece of horseracing truth. The sum of these truths provides even the novice with a sound basis for winning at the races...