Word: totaling
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...momentum, Democratic leaders denounced the idea as a giveaway to Bush's rich friends and thundered about a "defining issue" -- one on which Democrats should hold fast to demonstrate just what the difference is between their party and the Republicans. For Bush to prevail in the House, even assuming total G.O.P. support, he needed no fewer than 42 Democratic defectors...
...prospects for a substantial increase in federal education funding were dim, however. For weeks, Bush and his aides had rejected the notion that an education President should spend more on education. A senior White House official pointed out that federal funds account for only about 7% of total spending on education, and argued that much of the money is spent so inefficiently that "we could eliminate most of it and nobody would notice." Such arguments moved New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a liberal Democrat, to retort that waste and inefficiency never prevented the Administration from spending on defense...
...soars. Abortion is one reason: half of all unwanted pregnancies are now terminated. Teenage mothers intent on keeping their children are another. In some states a pregnant 15-year-old quickly learns that with a baby she can be eligible for Medicaid, food stamps and other welfare payments that total as much as $8,000 a year. If she decides on adoption, she may get nothing but the pain of loss and the ridicule of her peers. "Adoption is really unpopular in the schools," says Independent Adoption Center executive director Bruce Rappaport. If a girl doesn't decide to keep...
...besieged British conglomerate B.A.T Industries disclosed last week that it will sell its U.S. retailing operations, which include Saks Fifth Avenue (total stores: 46), Marshall Field's (24), Breuners (17) and Ivey's (23). B.A.T is reluctantly shedding the chains as part of a defensive strategy to fend off a takeover bid by Sir James Goldsmith...
Harvard received a total of 452 awards worthmore than $97 million from NIH for fiscal year1988. Harvard ranked 7th out of 1668 universitiesreceiving awards from NIH, said Tucker...