Word: totality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard received federal funding during the past fiscal year totalling $141.4 million, representing 18 percent of the university's total budget...
...biggest government benefactor this year was the Department of Health and Human Services, which sponsored projects totalling $93.4 million. Most of this went to fund research in the Medical School and in the School of Public Health. That total includes research for AIDS...
...total of 27 students took the two house seminars offered last fall, and 123 students took the eight spring seminars, according to the House Seminar Office. But some professors say they have to choose from as many as 100 applicants. Instructors say they do not give preference to house residents but they often do give preference to seniors, who will not have another chance to take a seminar...
...fact airlines keep stressing is that air travel is growing safer. Fatalities in U.S. commercial-airline accidents declined from 2,669 in the years 1970-78 to 2,000 in 1979-87, even though total flight hours increased by one-third during that time. Moreover, the majority of accidents are attributed to pilot and controller errors and to bad weather. Mechanical faults have been blamed as a factor in only about one-third of such mishaps...
...growing clamor about Texas Air prompted the FAA to launch an unusual plane-by-plane inspection of the Eastern and Continental fleets (total planes: 636) last month along with a probe to determine whether Texas Air is financially stable enough to run its airlines safely. While the FAA found such violations as a faded red EXIT light, a frayed seat belt and a minor oil leak, the agency says it has uncovered no major problems during the investigation, which is expected to conclude next week. Texas Air believes the special inspection will exonerate the airline and win back public confidence...