Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local real estate analysts estimate that Hong Kong investors are involved in 60% of new condominium construction and 25% of all apartment-building sales this year. Asians purchased more than $420 million worth of commercial real estate alone last year. Total Vancouver real estate holdings of Hong Kong Chinese: $2.1 billion...
...appeared to be playing catch-up, just as it did on ozone depletion. It was the European Community that first proposed a total ban on production of CFCs, the chemicals that are believed to be destroying the life- preserving layer of ozone in the atmosphere. The U.S., which had been preparing a similar proposal, agreed to join the ban. But the timing of the announcement made Bush look like a follower, rather than a leader, on the ozone question...
...window for the privilege of gazing upon the vintage architecture and serene greenery of the Old State House building, which is now home to a museum. Wilson Faude, the statehouse's executive director, came up with the view tax as a fund- raising gimmick. The total panes with a view...
...said the President, fears that in any negotiations it would come under irresistible pressure to agree to a total ban on nuclear weapons in Europe. NATO forces would then have no way to beat back a possible invasion by the Warsaw Pact nations, given the Pact's superiority in conventional forces. While that advantage is impressive in numerical terms, many experts in the U.S. and Western Europe argue that both in morale and materiel, Warsaw Pact troops are highly overrated. Nevertheless, the Administration is intent upon upgrading U.S. defenses in Europe by replacing the 75-mile-range Lance with...
...agree on anything, especially delicate policy issues, is no easy job. But now that scientists have convinced policymakers that the earth's ozone layer is in grave danger, governments are moving with unusual speed and resolve. Meeting in Helsinki last week, representatives from 86 countries said they favored a total ban on certain chlorofluorocarbons, man-made chemicals believed to be destroying the ozone, / by the end of the century at the latest. That goes far beyond the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which called for a 50% cut in CFC manufacture...