Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alone. The Government spent $1.2 billion more than it expected to-on such matters as U.N. bonds, the Cuban crisis, and a speedup in the public works program. But that sum would hardly have been noticed if other expectations had worked out. The Government lost $5.3 billion in corporate taxes that it had counted on, about $1.8 billion in individual income taxes, and some $500 million in capital gains taxes, held down by the sagging stock market...
Last week Choi's wife suddenly dropped the charges, agreed to accept their four children and a lump sum of $31,000 in alimony. Wan and unsmiling, the lovers emerged from prison. Kim hurried off to a hospital, complaining of "low blood pressure." Choi read an Orientally opaque statement saying the two would "now reconsider relations." In the meantime, because Korean stars are paid only $2,500 a film for their assembly-line endeavors, both are planning to sell their houses so that they can pay off Mrs. Choi...
...sum, the Committee cannot consider Gen Ed without considering such questions as whether its function is to impart culture, or a respect for a rational approach to the world, or a knowledge of Western (or even Eastern) institutions, or a belief in service, or good citizenship, or even just the capacity to cultivate one's garden. And it must consider whether these questions mean anything, and how far they overlab, and how much Harvard needs in the future to be concerned with any of them...
Such tactics are currently being used by Mr. Frank Kelly, Democratic candidate for Attorney General, against Edward Brooke, the Republican candidate. The sum and substance of the charge is that while Brooke was with the NAACP he opposed anti-subversive legislation. This was ten years ago. The legislation involved was of doubtful constitutionality at best, as it turned over to the Attorney General awesome power to label "subversives" and prosecute them without much regard for due process...
...show, in sum, is to be highly recommended, at least as an example of one man's synthesis of traditional and modern art, at most as a collection containing a number of very beautiful paintings...