I could have chosen any of the stories from Bennett's debut collection, Pond – and in fact I would urge you to read the collection as a whole, its sum being, unusually, greater than the parts.
In a guest column for the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute, launched a broadside against all of academia, arguing that, as its subhead sums up, "objective truth has been abandoned [in our universities] and the peer-review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies".
The government now admits it got its sums wrong, as Sir Richard had claimed, and the bidding process will be rerun (see article).
One of her albums admitted as much in its title: it summed her up as an [Impossible Princess].
But announcements were postponed as the government reworked its sums to find some crumbs for the strikers.On August 15th, before an audience of business leaders at the presidential palace, Ms Rousseff unveiled plans for auctions to bring private firms into building and running infrastructure.
In general, a reductionist approach tries to break-down a complex system into its parts list and explains its properties as the sum of its individual components.
We allowed ourselves to be, for the duration of the performance, oblivious to the political insanity raging outside of the opera house, reflecting a hatred of immigrants, a hatred of Europe, and, perhaps, a hatred of élite European culture itself as summed up, in its very essence, by the opera.
Last month, American said that it was losing $10 million to $15 million a day, about the same sum as its major rival, United Airlines.
This view is motivated by the thought that, although a substance is distinct from its nature understood as the sum of its qualities, it nonetheless is individuated by its nature and so must have it essentially.
"With Vivendi's conglomerate structure, analysts tend to view it as the sum of its parts, rather than just looking at its earnings, or even earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization," he says.
