Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jeopardy at its source. For one thing, while rates of college enrollment by black women have remained steady, the number of black males enrolled in colleges declined from 470,000 to 436,000 between 1976 and 1986. That represents a drop of 34,000 students during a period when total college enrollment grew by more than a million and the proportion of black students who finished high school climbed from 68% to 76%. Possible explanations include the shift from grants to loans in federal aid for higher education, a lack of aggressive recruitment by colleges and tougher entrance requirements...
Lawrence said the right-to-life movement "is a movement that wants to see women forced into the back alleys and preaches total submission of wife to husband, not unlike what the Nazis did in pre-war Germany...
Eastern, the nation's seventh-largest airline,already has nearly shut down, saying it has beenforced to lay off a total of 9500 workers thisweek because of the pilots' adherence to theMachinists' strike in a 17-month-old contractdispute...
...favorite conservative myth about the Vietnam war is that the U.S. could have won, had it only possessed the political will to wage a total war against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army. As Reagan put it in 1965, "We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home for Christmas...
...withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan after a 10-year struggle against native resistance slays this pet theory. The Soviets certainly did not scruple to wage total war. They burned villages, planted toy-shaped antipersonnel mines designed to maim children and indiscriminantly executed non-combatants. Estimates put the civilian death toll at more that one million...