Word: totaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretty face, so his abilities are underestimated. And he's not working a rebel image, which is associated with being a good actor." But he does have the image, in the films that made him famous, of an intense young man with a mission: the total workhorse, the ultimate party animal. His job -- flying planes, shooting pool, mixing drinks -- is his life. And he is vulnerable as well as volatile. His thin, high voice helps him here: it locates a little boy lost in the clouds of bravado. Moviegoers may also like what they see in Cruise...
...consulting arm at the same time that he was letting potential buyers know they could pick up the firms at a discount." Fearing a messy auction, clients began to switch to other consulting agencies. So far, only three of the smaller agencies have been sold, for a total of $38 million...
...total collapse of the Soviet Union might create almost as many global problems as it solved. Regional despotisms like Fidel Castro's Cuba or Najibullah's Afghanistan would probably wither quickly, as might many Third World Communist insurgencies. The U.S. economy would benefit handsomely from vastly reduced defense expenditures. But the blessings of a Soviet collapse would certainly be mixed. Just as the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I led to Hitler's brutal exploitation of the resulting power vacuum, so the end of the Pax Sovietica in Eurasia might touch off an ethnic bloodbath among...
...committed to strengthening the FDA," Sullivan declared. In the Senate, meantime, Massachusetts liberal Edward Kennedy has joined with Utah conservative Orrin Hatch in a bipartisan effort to beef up the FDA's anemic annual budget by setting a floor level of $500 million, vs. the current total of $492 million. Their proposal would also provide the FDA with a single facility -- currently, it is spread across 22 buildings in Washington, from converted chicken coops to renovated Army barracks. Even regulated industries, fearing a loss of consumer confidence, are demanding a stronger FDA. The agency, as former FDA official Peter Barton...
...letter to Ron Benham, former chair of the Neighborhood Coalition, Healy said he would make sure that the center was docketed for next year's budget. "I will make every effort to include the total funding request in the 1991 fiscal budget," Healy wrote. "However, given the severe fiscal constraints which the state is placing on the city, the total may have to be spread across two years...