Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...older drivers can collide with other concerns. Many auto-insurance companies offer discount rates to drivers over 65 because they tend to drive less frequently and to avoid hazardous situations like rush-hour traffic and bad weather. Another issue is compassion: depriving many senior citizens of their licenses would amount to robbing them of their independence. "The use of a car is particularly important to older citizens," says Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, 88. "It's a vital link to the outside world...
...television blackout and two missed bowl opportunities (consider the potential revenue lost: just one Orange Bowl appearance is worth $2.75 million a team). The punishment prompted Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan to blurt, "They wanted us, and they got us." Calmly, Schultz replied that he sensed "a certain amount of paranoia there...
...looked so innocent. They have the appearance and consistency of soft taffy and can be molded, stretched or cut into any shape. They burn so safely that American G.I.s in Viet Nam used them as emergency cooking fuel. Yet plastic explosives pack roughly twice the force of an equivalent amount of dynamite. Many nations, including the U.S., produce them for military purposes. But large amounts have made their way into the hands of terrorist groups around the world, posing a fiendishly difficult problem for airline security. Because the explosives can be so easily formed into innocuous shapes, they can pass...
...optimists, including Kudlow and Data Resources' Wyss, believe U.S. businesses will support the expansion by investing a healthy amount in capital improvements. The Commerce Department last week estimated that U.S. companies last year spent $426 billion on new plant and equipment, an increase of more than 10% from 1987. The Government predicts such spending will increase an additional 6% this year. Says Wyss: "Business investment will be one of the strong areas of the economy...
...certain earthy logic. "Scientists define pollution as energy waste. Sewage is pollution when you dump it in the ocean -- yet it's so loaded with nutrients that it could enrich any soil it is put into," he explains. "It's the same with humans. People have an immense amount of energy, but for the most part it isn't being used. The result is a kind of pollution: frustration, depression, rage, crime. Society needs that energy, and nobody is making the connection...