Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was anything shady about the contribution. He did not ask for the $200,000 in cash, as the Government charged. He kept the donation secret because Vesco asked him to. True, the money was actually delivered after April 7, 1972, the deadline for such secret contributions, but the sum had been pledged earlier-and that was what counted, he said. And when he did receive the money from Vesco's men, Stans testified, he made it clear that there were no strings attached. "On my oath," he declared in court, "I never did anything to help Robert Vesco...
...derringer tucked up the sleeve. Last week, after 17 years' litigation, DaCosta, now 65 and a mechanic, won his suit charging that the series had been copied from his act. A Providence court ordered CBS to pay him "the proceeds of their wrong." Yet to be determined, the sum should be enough to allow DaCosta to copy Boone/Paladin's tall-in-the-saddle style of life. · Theatrical dynasties are common enough in England, but the Redgrave clan is unique. All five members are currently in action round the world. In London, Vanessa Redgrave, 37, is starring...
...pushed by Good and approved by an independent scientific advisory committee, it soon came under criticism. Several scientists-including Britain's Sir Peter Medawar, winner of a 1960 Nobel Prize for his work on tissue grafting -tried but were unable to duplicate Summerlin's results. Apparently Sum-merlin himself could not repeat his earlier experiments; in a paper now awaiting publication in the scientific journal Transplantation, Good, Summerlin and Dr. John Ninnemann report that although they tried five different transplantation techniques on 500 mice, they were unable to get the new tissue to take...
However, in an institution in which policy is seldom made in the guise of policy--only twice in recent history has the Corporation explicitly issued policy statements--it is the sum of a series of dollars-and-cents decisions that determine the direction of the University...
...different groups of black students in his junior high school, Noah reluctantly gave up when a gang of blacks threw him down a flight of stairs. He transferred to another integrated-but more racially balanced-public school. Says his mother: "I realized that [the school] was the terrible sum of all the mistakes, indifference and racism I had seen accumulating over the years...