Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This sense of acceleration is not just a vague and spotted impression. According to a Harris survey, the amount of leisure time enjoyed by the average American has shrunk 37% since 1973. Over the same period, the average workweek, including commuting, has jumped from under 41 hours to nearly 47 hours. In some professions, predictably law, finance and medicine, the demands often stretch to 80-plus hours a week. Vacations have shortened to the point where they are frequently no more than long weekends. And the Sabbath is for -- what else? -- shopping...
...which are the center of the work, but the whole performance is a huge undertaking. That's one reason it's rare that undergraduates perform the piece. We've had to raise a great deal of money to arrange for the soloists and the orchestra, not to mention the amount of time and practice that has gone into perfecting...
Under certain conditions, deuterium nuclei combine and form a helium nucleus and release a tremendous amount of energy as heat...
...amount of heat we found was very large in comparision to the amount of radiation, which is very nice," says Huggins. "We're just plain dumb lucky--maybe nature's been nice...
Although the current lack of attention given to AIDS may be a backlash against the amount of media coverage given during the last few years, Blumenfeld said that it was the public perception of AIDS as a gay men's disease that limited coverage...