Word: summing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing we can do differently is instead of giving a lump sum of money, is to direct it to...something more specific to our class," Cahn said...
Simons called this sum insufficient, citing the $900 SafetyWalk spends yearly on phone calls alone...
...encamp on the margins of celebrity: O.J. could sell his story to magazines and tabloids and peddle his autograph at card shows. Frank Vuono, president and CEO of Integrated Sports International, which handles a score of pro football players, says Simpson could probably demand a six-figure sum from card-show organizers. "He's a novelty," says Vuono. "I imagine you'll see O.J. Websites and O.J. collectibles and all sorts of stuff. That's the crazy world we live...
...walked out of a House Commerce Committee session devoted to the G.O.P.'s proposal, which seeks to channel more seniors into private insurance and HMO plans. Senate Democrats unveiled an alternate plan that they said would keep the current system intact and save $89 billion, a third of the sum advocated by Republicans...
...there is a single grating habit that has afflicted young writers of the past decade, it is a tendency to define characters not necessarily by their histories or heartaches or small triumphs but, more economically, as a sum of their pop-cultural tastes. Want to show that someone is vacuous? Put him in Gucci loafers. Want to convey sophistication? Mention a character's love of Godard. Want to suggest that a person has developed unrealistic notions of familial closeness? Have her reminisce about watching The Brady Bunch...