Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently, the managers of some top venture capital funds have started capping the amount any one investor can sink into them in order to diversify their investor base. So HMC was unable to invest enough of the endowment in venture capital to fully capitalize on the bull market...
Quad dining halls, which made a particular push this year to leave out snacks at night, have already dealt with calculating the amount of food students consume each night...
Levy, along with three other members of the five-member election board, had said repeatedly that Burton and Driskell--who won the campus-wide election for president and vice president in a landslide--exceeded their spending limit by $5 to $10, although he would not release the exact amount...
Increasingly, it looks as though children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, rather than being brats by choice, are really governed by a medical condition. According to a study in the current issue of the medical journal the Lancet, children with ADHD may have a lower-than-normal amount of the chemical dopamine, which is associated with concentration and motivation. ADHD children, says the report, have an average of 70 percent more dopamine transporters in their brains than other children - evidence, researchers think, that these brains developed the extra transporters in a vain effort to compensate for a lack of dopamine...
...embassy during the ensuing protests in China's capital. "Bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was a terrible mistake that dramatically set back relations with Beijing and fueled China's paranoia about Washington's intentions," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The challenge was to find a compensation amount that would bring closure to the matter while allowing the Chinese to save face, and that's what this deal appears to have achieved...