Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they lend to Chrysler if the auto firm is unable to repay the loans. This promise should enable Chrysler to return to the money markets that have been closed for the past year. The automaker, moreover, will pay the Treasury an annual fee of at least 1% of the sum guaranteed...
When Pressler was beginning his candidacy, a reporter asked South Dakota Republican Chairman Dan Parish what he thought. Said Parish: "I can sum it up in three words-ha, ha, ha." But the junior Senator from South Dakota does not think his candidacy is a joke. "When I ran for Congress in 1974,1 started with one volunteer. But I ran an idealistic campaign and stayed with the issues. Some day, and maybe it won't be me, someone will run an idealistic presidential campaign based on the issues...
...proposes that heat pumps be employed to warm the building in winter, simultaneously making ice that will be stored in huge underground bunkers until sum mer, when it can be used to cool the structures without consuming electricity. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the architectural firm renowned for its skyscrapers, is constructing an energy-efficient cube-shaped building for Draper and Kramer in Chicago that features three sunlit atriums. Architect Gunnar Birkerts' 14-story IBM building in Detroit is black on its north and east sides, to absorb heat, and silver on its south and west sides, to reflect...
...well-equipped thief got away with a haul of 35 cords from a lumberyard in northern New Hampshire. And there are more and more warnings of pollution from wood smoke. Wood has little sulfur, compared to coal, and burning it adds nothing to the atmosphere's carbon dioxide sum. But participates from inefficient burners can polute in congested areas...
...Houston's low-income black Fourth Ward, Billy Kelly, 64, simply stays away as much as possible from his porous and weatherbeaten two-room frame house. His gas has been cut off since sum mer. When he absolutely must return home, he says, "I put newspapers in the cracks and sleep with my clothes on and put on all the blankets and quilts I can find. If you get pneumonia, that's it." In Wisconsin's Green County, two 65-year-old widows have moved into one house to save on fuel costs. In Chicago, volunteers are knitting mittens...