Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wars," more Americans than ever are going to Europe, both to visit and to settle. In 1971, more than 1,000,000 Americans made their home in Europe, and more than 2,100,000 traveled there in search of profit or pleasure. The numbers are bound to increase. In sum, Europe still has a special meaning for the U.S., as a symbol both of past and present, both for practical business and, in a curious way, for escape...
...anything but. Before the day had ended, the German Bundesbank had to buy up a staggering $2.7 billion of unwanted greenbacks with marks, the largest sum ever paid out by a government in one day in an effort to keep its own money from taking an unwelcome jump in value. Other European central banks bought up about $1 billion. Then began a drearily familiar financial choreography. Foreign exchange windows from London to Tokyo were slammed shut, and they may well remain closed through at least part of this week. European finance ministers started meeting in Brussels Sunday to work...
...Harvard accepting a cash sum for its lands in Cornwall, but retaining freedom to continue, institute or terminate any research project in its former lands, and perferably anywhere in PIPC...
...This cash sum transferred to the Harvard Black Rock Forest Fund on the University books, to be used for "any forestry purpose" in accordance with the instrument of gift. This phrase is open to very wide interpretation, quite properly, in accordance with my father's interests in Harvard, and in science, as mentioned above...
Independent sources have placed the sum of donations of $5000 or more at comprising over 75 per cent of funding for private universities...