Word: sums
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Most-$125.4 billion-of the Penta gon's portfolio is in expendable equipment and supplies, from aircraft carriers and guided missiles to ballpoint pens and jungle boots. However, a sizable sum ($38.4 billion) represents huge property holdings at home and abroad. Including everything from local reserve-unit armories to missile-testing grounds, Defense controls 27,606,219 acres in the United States. It has its biggest holdings in California (4,335,068 acres), its smallest in the District of Columbia (1,672). Its worldwide holdings cover more than the combined areas of Rhode Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont...
...Bobby Baker had indeed turned over all the "political contributions" to Kerr, what did the Senator do with them? In his opening statement, Defense Attorney Williams said that when Kerr's Washington safe deposit box was opened following his death, it yielded "an equivalent sum to what had been turned over to him" by Baker. Without specifying that amount, Williams declared that Baker "did not commit theft from the savings and loan executives." Government attorneys this week will try to shake Baker's story under crossexamination. Whatever the outcome, his testimony will only becloud the memory...
...questing, restless majority of the young may already be ahead of that issue. By the existential act of rejecting cogito, ergo sum for sum, ergo sum, they have taken on, willy-nilly, a vast commitment toward a kindlier, more equitable society. The young often seem romantics in search of a cause, rebels without raison d'etre. Yet in many ways they are markedly saner, more unselfish, less hag-ridden than their elders...
...host of rumors, one of them a report that it gives the husband an electric shock. More than 1,000,000 women have been fitted with the loops at clinics. Another 1,780,000 Indians have voluntarily undergone sterilization (for payments of less than $4). Even the sum of these two figures leaves the country a long way from its goal of cutting the birth rate from the present...
...present pennies), a penny, a twopence piece, a 5-pence piece, a 10-pence piece and a 50-pence piece (worth, like the current 10-shilling note, half a pound). The pound will remain but the decimal system means that a price will be written as ?3.33. The sum can then be converted to dollars, simply by multiplying by 2.8, and the simplification may cut bookkeeping time by an estimated...