Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obsessive fans (Nathan Lane) is extravagantly camp, a walking aria of loveless lament. The other (Anthony Heald), casually straight in manner but for an occasional nervous flutter of his hands, has a thriving career as a book editor and a cozy home life with a physician. They amount to a before-and-after picture of homosexuals in the age of liberation. The campy one, very '50s, is witty but a self-denigrating cartoon; his friend, very '80s, acts relaxed even when disclosing that his relationship is turning into an "open" one. The twist in Terrence McNally's midnight-dark comedy...
...more, though. A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that even a minimal amount of exercise -- a brisk half-hour walk once a day is enough -- confers significant protection not only from cardiovascular disease and cancers but also against death from a wide range of other causes. Put plainly, people who exercise just a little bit tend to live longer...
...their stockpile where they hoped no one would want to look: inside 10-gal. drums of sodium hydroxide, a caustic powder. When narcotics agents discovered the cache last Friday night in a warehouse in Queens, N.Y., they had to call in hazardous-waste specialists to handle the material. Total amount seized: as much as 5 1/2 tons. Only five weeks earlier, police had broken open a $6 padlock on the door of a warehouse in suburban Los Angeles and discovered 21.4 tons of cocaine, the largest U.S. cache ever grabbed. All told, authorities estimate, they will have seized 85 tons...
...projections of the cocaine supply, which still amount to guesswork, nonetheless indicate that the Government's longtime effort at interdicting shipments has been largely ineffective. In fact, smugglers have become so efficient and so numerous that since 1981 the median national retail price of cocaine has declined from $115 a gram...
...Ridge, where it was packaged in uranium sponge and sold for commercial use -- primarily as a radioactive marker in biological research or as a source of light in everything from airport runways to luminous watch dials. The apparent losses were discovered when customers complained of discrepancies between the amount of tritium ostensibly exported and the amount that was actually received...