Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon financial situation is also clouded by rising opposition in Congress to President Ford's request that Nixon be given $850,000 to meet his post-resignation "transition" expenses until next June 30, $400,000 above the sum specified in the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. Phone calls and letters to Congressmen and Senators are running overwhelmingly against providing such a large sum. Nixon has drawn up a budget for $250,000 in expenses, which can be challenged by Congress. This includes a puzzling $100,000 for "miscellaneous" costs, $40,000 for travel expenses and $20,000 for telephone calls...
...Javits and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson. Javits and Nelson, like Burns, call for $4 billion but only 500,000 jobs; they are thinking of average salaries of $8,000 while Burns' plan contemplates only $5,000. Illinois Republican Charles Percy has advocated the spending of an even greater sum: $6 billion...
...earthwork can have to its environment: an undulating meander maze, a barely noticeable ripple on the lawn, covered with sod grass. It is low-key and perfectly appropriate in its site, harking back to a time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course. In sum, the "Monumenta" project discloses a great deal about the survival of public sculpture in the 1970s in something other than its usual urban form-a grandiose ashtray plunked down to decorate a skyscraper's barren forecourt. The Newport exhibition is worth the trip, even though few things...
...Trip. For that sum, says Denning, Neptune offers "a real first-class service. The crew is at full dress, the ship is pointed into the wind, and all the engines are dead." The flag is lowered to half-mast, and the captain reads Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" (the 107th Psalm is optional), while a black-draped crew member sprinkles the loved one's remains into the Pacific from a ceramic Grecian urn. For an additional $250, as many as 20 relatives and friends can attend the scattering from the deck of Neptune's bar-and-galley...
...sum, the ruling meant that busing from one community-wide school district to another is not a proper remedy for school segregation in Detroit or, by implication, in any other city. Burger's opinion left one small avenue open to cross-district busing: a court could order it in cases where intentional segregation in one district leads to a "significant segregative effect in another district." One example might be where district lines are clearly and intentionally drawn on the basis of race. Otherwise, Burger argued, school-district boundary lines should not be treated casually by judges because "no single...