Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farms who would like to stay are forced to find jobs elsewhere because their parents' operation is too small or inefficient to offer a future. Yet the capital required to get into production on even a modest farm has shot up to at least $40,000 - a sum that few farmers starting out could obtain. Just as the Government now offers special aid to "small" businesses grossing several million dollars annually, it should do more to encourage the flow of young blood into productive farming by helping qualified ag school graduates obtain credit. Such a plan would offer...
...young dancer, Alvin Ailey was lithe, handsome and much sought after. But artistically he felt that he was stepping on his own toes. He wanted to be a choreographer and build a new dance company. That company's mission would be to sum up the dance heritage of Ailey's fellow blacks, to express "the exuberance of [the Negro's] jazz, the ecstasy of his spirituals and the dark rapture of his blues." In 1958, when Ailey was 27, he got the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater off the ground. Yet if Ailey today occupies a special...
...plan established a need criteria which applies to all incoming students. Departments must fund students within $1000 of their calculated need -- using the funds withheld and an added sum to attract promising students who may not qualify for need-based stipends...
...sum, though, Kelman is not dangerous, merely irritating. Even conservatives would gasp at much of his analysis, and the heroics of Ian Fleming's secret agents are more believable. Anti-Communism is a profession on the wane, and Kelman had better make his money while...
...heart of Penn Central's trouble is the question of its future ownership. The company's trustees figure that merely to replace its aging equipment and roadbed the line will need from $600 million to $800 million in s new capital-a sum no bankers would be willing to advance to a bankrupt line. Few members of Congress are eager to bail out Penn Central, and the Administration opposes such a move. Full nationalization of the line is supported by some labor leaders, but has few fans in either management or Government Unprofitable and unwanted, the line will...