Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They say it treats the Library as an organic whole, instead of the sum of individual parts such as the archives, the museum, Commonwealth Plaza, the related facilities area, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...Heller. No question about it, the Australian National Gallery's $2,000,000 bid for a 1952 Jackson Pollock abstraction owned by Heller is an audacious, if not inflationary purchase. The painting, Blue Poles, is a typical Pollock skein of blue and black dribbles. Previously, the highest sum paid for an American painting was for another Pollock by the Museum of Modern Art. Its rumored price tag: a mere...
...retire after 30 years with the company at any age and he will receive full pensions benefits. Although the union was asking for an increase in pensions to $650 a month, the contract sets benefits at $550. But it insures that retired workers will continue to collect that full sum even after they begin receiving social security benefits. By 1978, the average 65-year-old retired worker's monthly benefits will thus total about...
...local preoccupations and private distractions in the quickening pace of autumn, the sum of concerns represented by Watergate and its abuses of public trust and presidential power still hung in the air. The astonishing bundle of national contradictions remained: most Americans are weary of Watergate but they nonetheless want Ervin, Cox & Co. to finish their appointed tasks and probe it to its roots. Most Americans want to see Nixon finish out his term as President, but they still believe he is guilty of impeachable crimes. Most Americans, in spite of everything, still see Nixon as the best man now around...
...would take to get this guy," Griggs told the Braves' management, "but I'd pay it out of my own pocket." It took, as it happened, just $350, or $50 more a month than the New York Giants were offering Aaron at the time. That paltry sum, recalls Aaron, "was the only thing that kept Willie Mays and me from being teammates." And the Giants from winning untold World Series...