Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years, conditioned that you, Spiro T. Agnew, at all times will be of uniform good behavior, that you will not violate the laws of the United States or of any state; that, as a further condition of this probation, you are to pay a fine in the sum of $10,000 within 30 days...
Hammerman tried to collect between 3% and 5% of a contract's total value but is described as having been willing to accept "any reasonable sum." He "generally held Mr. Agnew's 50% share in a safe-deposit box until Mr. Agnew called for it." The Governor would do so by telephoning Hammerman to ask how many "papers" his friend was holding. Says the summary: "It was understood between Mr. Agnew and Hammerman that the term 'paper' referred to $1,000 in cash...
Cook said yesterday that ABC pays $320,000 for the rights to the game. Six per cent of the sum goes to the NCAA and the balance is divided among Harvard, Cornell, and the rest of the Ivy League colleges according to the Ivy League revenue sharing program. Harvard's share of the money is expected to be about...
...stubbornly insisted that his publications reflect his own tastes. The latest venture to bear his imprint is Saturday Review/ World, a combination of two former Cousins magazines. On the evidence of the first three biweekly issues, the total product may well turn out to be better than the sum of its parts...
Goldfein's comedy manages the odd trick of being broad and donnish at the same time. He does Hegel with a sauerbraten accent: "Veil, now, vot ve got here? Ve got, for shtarters, ve got Descartes. Him and his Cogito, ergo sum ... Dot's an insight?" Not every one of these brief sketches works. But the author does a fine turn on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and he perceives, in an epiphany whose correctness is apparent, that Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote not only The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, but also The Myth of Sisyphus...