Word: totality
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Princeton gained 605 yards of total offense on the afternoon...
...stark facts are revealed each month in the trade-deficit figures. Despite recent improvement, the U.S. still imported $80 billion more in goods than it exported in the first seven months of the year. At the current rate, the 1988 trade deficit will total some $130 billion, 23.5% less than last year's record $170 billion. That progress has resulted primarily from the 40% drop of the dollar against major currencies since early 1985, which has made imports more expensive and U.S. exports a bargain overseas...
...this has helped depress the numbers that networks live by. A decade ago, the benchmark of prime-time success was a Nielsen rating of 20. (The rating refers to the percentage of total TV homes that are tuned in to a particular show. The "share" refers to the percentage of homes watching TV that are tuned to that show.) In the 1980-81 season, 28 network series achieved a 20 rating or better; last season only nine did. For many weeks last summer, not a single network show cracked the 20-rating level...
...before the crash, have gone on a shopping spree once again. Florida-based financier Paul Bilzerian, 38, acquired the Singer Co. for $1.06 billion last February partly because the crash had depressed its stock price. Since then, Bilzerian has sold off eight of Singer's twelve divisions for a total of $1.94 billion, more than enough to cover all his costs. In the end, he is expected to reap a $300 million profit. The Government is investigating his earlier raids for possible securities-law violations, which he denies having committed...
President Chadli Bendjedid declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and called in the army to restore law-and-order. Total property damage was estimated at more than $100 million. The government said 900 people were ! arrested, and without disclosing figures admitted that people on both sides were killed during battles between protesters and security forces. Whatever the toll, the outburst jolted Bendjedid's ten-year-old regime, which has sought to revive the country's petroleum-depressed economy with an austerity program that included cuts in subsidies for food and other commodities. The result has been sharply rising...