Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half of all American adults offer their time to a cause, an astounding figure even allowing for the number of people who lie to pollsters. And most are giving more time than ever. These are commitments, not gestures. The average volunteer offers nearly five hours a week, for a total of 19.5 billion hours in 1987 -- the equal, roughly, of 10 million full-time employees. There is something infectious about mercy...
President-elect Bush's Flexible Freeze Plan to reduce the budget deficit does not give economists much reassurance. The program calls for the total elimination of the budget deficit by 1993 by freezing all Government spending after adjustment for inflation except for Social Security and interest payments. But many economists believe the plan relies on overly optimistic assumptions that the U.S. economy will grow more than 3% a year through 1993 while inflation declines to about 2%. Sinai considers the Flexible Freeze Plan "unrealistic and unworkable...
...sits on a bench off the Bowery, glazed eyes staring into a void, sipping on a tall can of Bud enclosed in a brown paper bag. "Twelve dollars and 50 cents," he mutters. "Twelve dollars and 50 cents." It is the sum total of one man's life -- the amount he says he has been trying to borrow from his family in Detroit to ensure his burial in potter's field, and to escape from the death beyond death: "They send you to medical school and cut you up into little pieces -- that...
...Giuliani is expected to try to put at least one Drexel employee behind bars. In perhaps its most humiliating cave-in, Drexel agreed to cooperate with the Government investigation of Michael Milken, the financial wizard who created the market for high-yielding junk bonds (total now held: $180 billion) and who remains the ultimate target of Giuliani's probe. Milken, who was not represented in the settlement talks, is expected to be indicted in Manhattan sometime in January...
...capita energy consumption fell 12% and the average amount of goods and services generated per person rose 17%. In the past few years, however, energy use has risen as the price has declined. Americans, who own more than 135 million cars, or about one-third of the world's total, have been driving more and have resumed their love affair with large gas-guzzling cars...