Mark G. Heesen, the president of the National Venture Capital Association, countered that the views stand at odds with the growing sums that limited partners continue to push at venture capitalists.
Hard-to-reform entitlements eat up a large share of the federal budget; the ageing of America will soon suck growing sums of money out of the government's coffers.
Still, the letter seemed to show that Mr. Weidmann and the traditionally conservative Bundesbank had started dissenting against the growing sums of money that the central bank had been lending to banks on ever-easier terms.
With American smokers buying e-cigarettes at a record pace — annual sales are expected to reach $1.7 billion by year's end — e-cigarette makers are opening their wallets wide, spending growing sums on television commercials with celebrities, catchy slogans and sports sponsorships.
They claim that Americans are ceding the high frontier to the Russians, the Chinese, and the Indians, who are all busy investing growing sums of cash in their national space programs and planning visits to the moon.
Although the main factor has been the growing sums of cash the cable operators have to fork over to NBC, ESPN and other networks for their programming, the operators themselves are demanding higher fees from consumers for the converter boxes that unscramble, record and display shows.
What isn't clear — and may not come to pass — is whether there is enough market space for Microsoft to replace its traditional Office revenues completely, and then grow the sum.
On the other hand, the harmonic series, 1+1/2 +1/3 +1/4 … which propped up our puzzle, Hanging Over The Edge, diverges, its sum growing larger and larger as you add more and more terms.
"In sum, growing up... with Asperger's hasn't been easy, but I'd like to think I've turned out okay for the most part.
