Word: summing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standards of conduct [in the student handbook] are voted by The Faculty," said Killen. "What you're seeing is pretty much the faculty sum consensus...
...single subsidy but from an accumulation of subsidies. Over the years, taxpayers have funded the vast infrastructure that provides the water--dams, reservoirs, canals, locks, pumping stations, hydroelectric turbines, such as Washington State's massive Columbia Basin Project. The Federal Government picks up the tab, then bills farmers a sum equal to only a small portion of the actual cost of construction. Then it gives them 40 to 50 years to pay off their share--interest free. Estimates of the total irrigation subsidy since 1902 range from $18 billion to more than $75 billion, with most of that coming...
University officials disputed the guards' claims, saying they received in 1996 a lump sum payment in lieu of a raise, and that the guards have been without a contract for only two years...
Judging from the tone of his column (Nov. 2), it sounds as though Hugh P. Liebert intends to sum up the decades-old debate over gay and lesbian civil rights in 1,000 words or less. But by flattening the views of gay-rights advocates into a few narrow stereotypes, he undercuts the high ground he tries so hard to attain...
...rewards them handsomely. The Federal Government alone shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare, this in the midst of one of the more robust economic periods in the nation's history. Indeed, thus far in the 1990s, corporate profits have totaled $4.5 trillion--a sum equal to the cumulative paychecks of 50 million working Americans who earned less than $25,000 a year, for those eight years...