Word: totality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, a spanking new Chevrolet may cost $12,000. The total cost of a Harvard education is $18,200--nearly three times what it was just 12 years...
...loans from commercial banks and lending agencies like the World Bank. There was one important condition: the debtor nations had to modernize their economies and institute financial reforms. Baker hoped that economic growth would provide the debtors with sufficient capital to repay their loans, bringing the level of total debt down to a more reasonable level...
These imaginative and important steps, however, will reduce total Third World debt by only a tiny fraction. Bankers may find that if they move too cautiously in easing the debt burden, more sweeping solutions to the problem may be forced upon them...
Around the world, Johnson's disqualification suddenly riveted public attention on the decades-old problem of performance-enhancing drug use with an altogether new intensity. By week's end the total of ten drug-related disqualifications in Seoul was close to the 1984 figure. But many thought: If this world-record holder would risk detection, everyone must be doing it. Spectators felt deceived and non-using athletes felt gypped. Overnight the Olympics became clouded, suspected of being an unholy chemistry competition rather than the glorious alchemy of will, talent and training that is its ideal...
...Jack Eckerd drugstore chain and Beatrice. Profits on those raids: $13.2 million. The Hafts' biggest score came in October 1986, when the Safeway company paid Dart $59 million to go away, so that the chain's management could execute a $4.1 billion leveraged buyout of the firm. Dart's total take at the Safeway checkout stand: $137 million. Six months later, the Hafts cleared $32 million more after an assault on Supermarkets General...