Word: totality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saving to send even one child to college puts millions of middle- class parents on an ever accelerating treadmill. According to the Senate education subcommittee, the full annual costs at a private college come to $12,924 a student. That represents 40% or so of a median family's total income. Parents who send a son or daughter to a public college can expect to pay $5,823 this year, or almost 20% of median-family income. Many parents have two or more children in college at the same time, and the Reagan Administration has made student loans harder...
Belatedly aware of the folly of total dependence on manned launch vehicles to deploy spacecraft, the U.S. has been forced to play a catch-up game. Since January 1986, the Soviets have launched scores of satellites, sent two / scientific probes to Mars, and ferried a stream of cosmonauts between the earth and the space station Mir -- all with the aid of antiquated but tried- and-true expendable rockets. In the process, they have pushed far ahead of the U.S. in knowledge of the effects of extended space flight on humans...
...roars at Changch'ung gymnasium were just as loud whenever a local boy < took the floor at judo last week. During the first two days of the competition, Korean judoka won both golds. By the time all seven events were completed, Korea had added a bronze to their total, while Japan, the originator of the sport, came away with but one gold and three bronzes...
...wrote off the U.S. Olympic boxing team as a mere shadow of the 1984 squad, which had won a record nine gold medals. But last week they finished with eight medals -- three gold, three silver and two bronze. Except for the boycotted 1984 Games, it was the best U.S. total since 1904. The gold winners: bantamweight Kennedy McKinney, 22, light heavyweight Andrew Maynard, 24, and heavyweight Ray Mercer, at 27 the oldest U.S. fighter, who danced delightedly around the ring after knocking out Korea's Baik Hyun-man. Light middleweight Roy Jones, 19, lost a plainly mistaken decision to Korean...
...team, running in a heat for the 4 X 100-meter relay, took possession of the baton outside the designated zone. That meant disqualification, preventing the regular U.S. squad, which Lewis would have anchored, from competing in the finals. Carl's still remarkable Olympic total: six golds and a silver. "This has been a bizarre Olympics," he summed up at week's end. "There have been a lot of ups and a lot of downs and a lot of in-betweens...