Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena was back at his pre-Chappaquiddick chore of directing traffic. The sum mer residents of Martha's Vineyard were savoring the final days before they would pack their station wagons on Labor Day and head for the ferry at Vine yard Haven for their ride back to the mainland. But the Vineyard summer crowd will no sooner be gone than scores of reporters and camera crews will pour into Edgartown for the Sept. 3 inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Poucha Pond...
Also of potential benefit to the states and cities is the Nixon plan for revenue sharing. Although the sum which would initially be dispersed-$500 million-is minute compared to the needs, the machinery is the thing. Unquestionably, the amount would grow in the future. Under Nixon's proposal, in January 1971, the Federal Government would start sending tax money back to the states, with a mandatory amount "passed through" to the cities and localities. Few strings would be attached, and present grants for particular purposes would presumably be continued. Nixon also wants to turn many of the manpower...
Well, that is certainly one of the reasons cooperation, instead of competition for personal reward, has been as successful as it has in Cuba. How Do You Sum Up Your Impressions...
Daniel Webster remarked about Dartmouth, "It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it." If a similar statement could sum up West Point, it might be found in the words of one devout cadet who said, "It's better to sire an illegitimate child than to marry and violate West Point regulations...
Since then, Nzeru-the word means "wisdom" in the Chichewa language-has produced 35,000 radios of Kroeker's design, and employment has grown to more than 50. In 1968, the company earned about $60,000 on sales of $210,000-a modest sum by Western standards but a considerable feat for an African enterprise. Nzeru has just introduced a portable model that, together with a new radio-phonograph, promises to increase sales...