Word: totals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assure: "Computers won't be picking people-people will be picking people." Ehrlichman added that no special effort will be made to recruit members of minority races "in the sense that we will have a quota of 12% Negroes because that is the ratio of Negroes to the total population. That would be artificial...
...Mathematician Babbage took issue with Tennyson's lines, "Every minute dies a man,/Every minute one is born." In so doing, this eminent specialist proved his case, but magnificently missed the point): I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas the total is constantly on the increase. In the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man,/And one and a sixteenth...
...machinery of that part of society to which they belong. The machinery may be a great corporation or a great government agency or a great law practice or a great university. These people may tend it very well indeed, but they are not pursuing a vision of what the total society needs. They have not developed a strategy as to how it can be achieved, and they are not moving to accomplish...
...little control over how our $1 billion endowent is spent. They claim that most of the funds are "tied"--the term applied to a money gift when it stipulates a specific expenditure. Actually, Harvard's University Fund, which holds all the untied money, compises almost one-third of the total endowment. Last year, more than $25 million of the total $130 million which Harvard received in gifts was untied. So administrators have ample funds to use at their own discretion...
Harvard's unofficial point total of 435 was only three too many for eighth place. Cal Poly and Miami (Ohio) checked in with 433 and 434 for eight and ninth places respectively...