Word: summing
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Offset with the hyperreality of the homeless characters in the audience (several audience members drew close their valuables or else took out change to give the actors, assuming they were authentic), the sum effect is one of deranged imbalance. This is especially true when a jazz band takes the stage and the homeless pair perform a choreographed dance and pretend to be playing along on tubes shaped like saxophones and guitars. The scene is perplexing, pointless, and childishly extreme...
Despite Forbes' claims to the contrary, his flat tax proposal would increase the budget deficit. Even he admits that his proposal could cost the government as much as $200 billion a year in revenues. Given such a sum and prior experience with the Reagan era tax cuts, Forbes' claim that economic growth would more than compensate for the lost revenue cannot be taken seriously. The Reagan-era tax cuts generated only enough additional revenue through the supply-side to offset a third of the lost revenues. Forbes' proposal is unlikely to do three times as well...
...March 31 Greaves signed a new severance deal that paid him a lump sum of $2.8 million, plus assorted other payments, and guaranteed him and his wife health care for the rest of their lives. The agreement also called for Health Systems International to buy back as much as half of his common stock, which brought him another $13.3 million. And Greaves signed a generous three-year consulting deal. All told, his exit brought him $18.1 million, equivalent to the average monthly premiums paid by nearly 134,000 subscribers...
...state, a reputation that stems in part from an earlier attempt to deny a bone-marrow transplant to a subscriber named Nelene Fox, who by coincidence lived just minutes from the deMeurerses. The jury in that case awarded the Fox family $89.1 million, later negotiated down to an undisclosed sum...
...promised, President Clinton vetoed the sweeping G.O.P.-sponsored overhaul of the welfare system that would have given lump-sum federal grants and shifted basic responsibilities to the states. Clinton said the legislation came packaged with too many spending cuts and too few incentives to move people from welfare to work...