Word: totaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost of college is a hot topic because tuitions will increase up to 9% this fall. Total costs at Harvard currently run about $20,000 a year; Maine's Colby College costs about $18,900. The similarity is not the result of price fixing, says Colby President William Cotter. The reason, he says, is "that a Ford costs about the same as a Chevy," or in the case of Harvard and Yale, a BMW costs about the same as a Jaguar. Cotter admits that the market is not price sensitive. "A family decides on private vs. public," he says...
While wages have increased at an annual rate of 3.3% since 1983, corporations have seen their health-care premiums jump 10% to 15% annually, to a current average of some $3,100 a worker. Economists expect that total U.S. health-care spending will exceed $600 billion this year, nearly 12% of the U.S. gross national product, up from...
...Government has declared total war on illegal drugs. But is it a battle that can ever be won? No, according to a new book by Ronald K. Siegel, a research psychopharmacologist at the UCLA School of Medicine. In Intoxication: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise (Dutton; $19.95), Siegel argues that the war is doomed because it is against man's own nature. His controversial contention: humanity's pursuit of happiness through chemicals -- whether ; caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, opium, marijuana or cocaine -- is a universal and inescapable fact of life...
...same time, however, Goodman's world is sometines difficult to understand, and her writing style is not helpful. The world she creates--whether it is in Hawaii, England or the American mainland--requires total immersion to read. With her multitude of names of the people streaming in and out her characters' lives and Goodman's frequent use of Hebrew, Yiddish and Hawaiian terms, the book is sometimes painful to wade through. Goodman writes...
...there is something more to this book than that. Total Immersion is more than a series of sketches of specialized communities-it provides a humorous and engaging commentary on human nature...