Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes for a rock-bottom $12,500. No matter. Keep going, keep the average up, aim for $10 million. The first day brings "over $4 million." The three-day total, a satisfied Wilson reports: "upwards of $7½ million." The pub is duly dispatched, to be knocked back into the bits and pieces of wood and glass from which it came and shipped off by container-arriving as one big jigsaw puzzle. The transportation and reassembly may cost as much as the object itself. But, insists Dennis Gibbons of Grand American Fare, "you couldn't build a paneled room...
...different it was a decade ago. On the momentous day when Armstrong and Aldrin touched down on the moon, all the world seemed to stand in awe. From Tokyo's Ginza to Piccadilly Circus in London, hordes of people followed the astronauts' progress. "How are they doing?" total strangers asked one another. People prayed for their safety, and countless babies were named Apollo. Millions of people clung to their radios and television sets, and newspapers broke out their largest type. Though beaten in the race to the moon, even the Russians joined in the worldwide chorus of acclaim...
...slowdowns. Thus far studies have shown that in France and West Germany fewer traffic fatalities occur on high-speed superhighways than on restricted side roads. Moreover, experts now concede that the gas saving realized by speed limits amounts at best to less than 1% of a country's total energy consumption...
Such underground violence is the dread of many urbanites, but this particular example took place last week in rural New Hampshire. The participants were 26 New York City transit police who went to Dartmouth College for 14 days of total immersion in Spanish. Of the city's 2,900 subway police, only 135 speak Spanish -in a city with 2.6 million Hispanics...
...program came to an end last week, Rassias said his pupils were midway between fluency and total ignorance of the language. Their ability to communicate got higher marks. The officers' Spanish grammar isn't perfect, and their vocabulary totals only some 1,000 words, but as Sergeant Edward Spinola, 39, explains: "I can communicate, where before I was totally lost." That is good enough for Transit Police Chief Sanford Garelik, who said last week that he was looking for funds for more Rassias-style training in languages besides Spanish that have become native to New York City-including...