Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans last year gave some $22 billion in charity, with 86% of that large sum coming from individual donors. Yet no one really knows where all the money went, and Minnesota's Senator Walter Mondale, chairman of the Subcommittee on Children and Youth, has become increasingly alarmed at the operations of unchecked charities. Mondale is not alone. The national office of the Better Business Bureau received 10,000 inquiries and complaints about charities last year, and this year the volume is rising sharply...
...substantial. Before they began reporting on Watergate, the two earned together less than $30,000 a year. Now, from raises and book advances, magazine, paperback and movie rights (Robert Redford wants to play Woodward), each reporter stands to earn more than $500,000 before taxes from the book, a sum that could surpass President Nixon's net worth?after he pays all his back taxes...
...January of 1920, Boston made the most celebrated sale in the history of baseball when they gave Ruth to the New York Yankees for the then-astronomical sum of $100,000 and a loan of $300,000 to help faltering Red Sox club owner Harry Frazee...
...resign was probably a "shaft" to start with, for it seems she has been fairly powerless all along. Perhaps that's why a threat to resign is so nearly-pathetic. (As an Expos. instructor, I worry that I can't quite find the single word that would sum up just how nearly-pathetic; but "anyone", as the Rev. Berryman puts it, "can teach Expository Writing." Just as anyone perhaps can be assistant director of whatever, provided the right person gives...
When the SEC drafted its charges against Vesco, the document noted that the financier had refused to say where the $250,000 had gone. According to Cook, Stans was worried about even this vague reference and implied that Cook should eliminate any mention of the sum from the final SEC complaint. Cook said that he complied with Stans' request. On Nov. 27, 1972, without referring to the $250,000, the SEC charged Vesco and a number of his associates with committing a $224 million stock fraud by illegally manipulating their foreign-based mutual funds...