Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairs to coffee mugs emblazoned with the name Harvard, the university coat of arms or the motto VERITAS (truth) will have to pay for the privilege. Despite an endowment of some $4.5 billion, the oldest U.S. university can always find uses for an extra $500,000 a year, the amount that the trademark license could eventually produce...
...municipal workers and teachers, the Senate plan would change a law that now requires contribution of an equal dollar amount to health premiums by employers to one that would require an equal percentage contribution...
...hazard is to the inhalation and lung retention of particles," which he said "can produce radiation damage." At the time, it was estimated that a worker could be inhaling about 16 radioactive particles per month. This suggests that over a one-year period a worker could have inhaled an amount of plutonium that is more than twice the current official lifetime lung burden allowed for Energy Department workers, the Glenn report said...
...Well, I wouldn't be human if I didn't confess to a certain amount of ego gratification. When I stood in front of the foreign policy establishment in the Soviet Union and was given a generally empathetic reception, I had a sense of, if you will, historical vindication. But I also had a sense of something much more important. There was a breakthrough taking place in the thinking of people who for 70 years were artificially divorced from the intellectual and philosophical currents of the Western world. They are now in the process of restoring some of those connections...
Moisi countered by arguing that for the West, a measure of democracy in the Soviet Union was "a guarantee against the return of Soviet imperialism." He told Migranyan, "You are calling on the West to help you, but there will be linkage between the amount of help you will receive and the image you transmit of yourselves." Moisi's message: Democracy pays, even if it poses problems for Eastern Europe's reformers. Conceded Migranyan: "This is the key problem for Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union...