Word: totality
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...number of electoral votes represented by states solidly for them or leaning their way. So the election seems likely to be won (or lost) in a handful of battleground states, especially the Big Three of Texas, Illinois and California. Together they cast 100 electoral votes, or 37% of the total needed for victory. It is difficult to see how either candidate can gain the White House without winning at least two. And in all three, the race opens as a toss...
...Democrats hope to split Houston with the G.O.P. and roll up a huge margin in South Texas. If so, the campaign will be decided in the small towns of central and East Texas, home to the bulk of the state's 2 million swing voters, a quarter of the total. But there is a demographic codicil: the Democratic margin in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley depends heavily on retaining the loyalty of Hispanic voters, who are being assiduously courted by Bush. "Name me a Hispanic who doesn't like to hunt in South Texas," says Rancher Tony Salinas, who heads...
...Loan Insurance Corporation guarantees thrift deposits, said it would spend $1.9 billion to rescue 14 ailing Oklahoma S and Ls. The Bank Board merged the thrifts into six larger institutions in the hope of selling them to private investors. With the Oklahoma rescue, the agency has laid out a total of $9.8 billion in the latter half of August to salvage 45 thrifts, most of them in the financially troubled Southwest...
...Ballygawley, 40 miles west of Belfast, another I.R.A.-triggered explosion blew up a bus filled with British servicemen returning from furloughs to duty in Northern Ireland. Eight died and 27 were injured. So far this year the I.R.A. has killed 27 British soldiers, including four in Western Europe. The total last year: three. Not since 1979, when 38 soldiers were killed in Northern Ireland, have the outlawed guerrillas been so effective...
...phenomenon I call Too Much Invested to Quit," says James Koval, a therapist who counsels couples in Long Beach, Calif. "We as a society are focused on a product, and that product is a partner. To make a decision about leaving a relationship is extremely tumultuous because of the total sense of loss." Unwed couples also tend to hide their private violence from others -- perhaps even more so than marrieds. Says Abbie Meyering, a Dallas psychologist: "Violence runs from the light of day. By the time the aggression erupts, there's very often a high level of isolation, dependence...