We have also invested a substantial sum in a real-time electronic surveillance system that was commissioned in December 2001.

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In sum, it will be a good time to be out of government.

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Golos says the money entered one of its accounts in December before it had time to decline it, and the sum was later returned unused.

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We are fortunate to live in a very thin slice of time, during which growth and positive sum economics and politics have ruled.

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Tuition can be purchased in terms of years or units, either as a one-time lump sum or through monthly installment payments.

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The suit was settled two years later in mid-2011, with Apple agreeing to pay an undisclosed one-time sum and recurring royalties.

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The five-year performance quoted above (like the ones in the tables beginning on page 136) is a time-weighted return, measuring results for a hypothetical investor who put in a sum at the beginning and stood pat.

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They include a sum of money in 500-euro banknotes and two wigs, one of which he was apparently wearing at the time of his detention.

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Breach of contract for them not paying me an undisclosed sum of money due to me at the time we parted ways, and a few other things named in the lawsuit.

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