Word: summing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year in an unusually heated council debate, the city agreed to transfer the easement to the site's developer, Carpenter & Co., for the sum of $1 million. At the time, many anti-development, activists criticized the move, saying the city could have held out for more money...
...1980s left both borrowers and creditors "loaned up." As a whole, the country's total outstanding debt is more than 180% of the GNP, almost a third higher than the postwar average. Consumer debt totals some $4.3 trillion, with total business debt about half that. Banks traditionally limited the sum of their loans to about 55% of assets and invested the remainder in government bonds and low-risk corporate instruments. But those loans now make up uncomfortably close to 70% of assets. Today both sides of the credit equation are less willing to take a chance: the debtor doubts that...
...plants, essential for any chic Southwestern edifice, are in such demand that nurseries are unable to keep them in stock. A prize specimen of Phoenix reclinata, which grows only a foot a year, now retails for $25,000. The new Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas spent a seven-figure sum to install 200 palms averaging 40 ft. each...
...fair that Enemies lacks his films' customary oomph. When it is not vitalized by the beautiful performances of Olin and Huston, the picture takes on Herman's dithering lassitude. And yet there is a method to this meandering. Novelist and director both know a man is more than the sum of the calamities that have befallen him. Herman is a victim, not just of the Nazis, but of his own demons as well. And he is lucky, or doomed, to find three superior women who want to crush him in the bosom of their devotion...
...ideological multiplier. Here was a political system that, seen from the outside, seemed to have a flat belly, a thick neck, big biceps and plenty of intestinal fortitude; it was also thought to have, in communism, a coherent and all too plausible plan for winning the zero-sum game of history...