Word: sums
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Initial plans for the initiative call for receipt of a significant sum of money at the program start next year and for the next few years to fund the initiatives initial activities. GTC is looking to not only receive funds from the University but from external grants...
...this suggests, there is little money to be squeezed out of those in bankruptcy, especially since trustees already collect about $4 billion from debtors each year, a sum that includes proceeds from liquidated assets. Even if they could find an additional $1 billion, the economic and emotional costs of doing so would far outweigh the return. To put it in perspective, the estimated $1 billion that might be collected would amount to two-tenths of 1 percentage point of outstanding revolving credit. If trustees were able to scare up another $4 billion--as the industry claims...
...each of those years--perfect timing, which no one has--you would have accumulated $387,120. Yet had you simply invested the money the day you got it--an easy strategy--you would have done almost as well, ending up with $362,185. And had you divided the sum into 12 equal parts and invested once a month--dollar-cost averaging--you would have wound up with $352,450, at considerably less risk. Now, that...
...exposition, and there is lots of exposition because the book focus on moments, is necessary-watching Ravelstein finger through silks in a Paris boutique, for example. But the reader often longs for something more concrete than the image of an effete, successful intellectual on a Paris shopping binge. The sum of Ravelstein's character is revealed in ordinary interactions, rather than when his intellectual or personal muscles are challenged...
...decided to show, as part of an exhibit called Sensation, Chris Ofili's controversial painting of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung and speckled with pornography. "Sanitation" champions artistic expression in the face of political interference, but it is no more and indeed far less than the sum of its parts-twelve Rubbermaid garbage cans surround a framed version of the First Amendment, while an altered version of Jasper Johns's interlocking "Three Flags" painting, with one flag's corner drooping limply, hangs in the background, next to six quotes by Giuliani and perennial anti-National Endowment...