Word: totality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team that lost a total of 85 goals in the trio of Lane MacDonald, Allen Borubeau and Tim Barakett, this year's squad has managed even though it did not place a player in the league's top 25 scorers...
...years ago, pundits were proclaiming the decline of American industry and heralding the conversion of the U.S. to a service economy. Overwhelmed by a tide of imports, U.S. manufacturing firms were accounting for a dwindling portion of the gross national product and generating a shrinking share of total employment. At the same time, service businesses ranging from fast-food outlets to financial conglomerates seemed to be where the action was. Soon, the seers said, Americans would all be flipping burgers, selling software or shining one another's Italian shoes...
...close to the brink of doom as many observers believed. Between 1970 and 1984, manufacturing output rose 53%, almost as strong an increase as the 62% in services. While many companies laid off factory workers, new industrial firms sprang up and others expanded, so that the total number of manufacturing jobs remained fairly constant. Meanwhile, employment in service businesses shot up 47% between 1970 and 1984, but that was partly because productivity growth was much lower in those areas than in manufacturing...
...some industries the bench is almost empty already. Paper mills are producing at 97% of total capacity, while primary metal and chemical manufacturers are operating at more than 90%. Overall, U.S. factories were running at an average of 82% capacity at the end of last year, the highest level since...
...thick brush that borders the track another agent has pinned to the ground a second member of the gang, this one unarmed. Around the prisoner are nearly a dozen 30-lb. sacks of marijuana abandoned by his fellow "mules." The total load will weigh out at 317 lbs., worth about $250,000 in South Texas and much more elsewhere in the U.S. If they hadn't been busted, the mules, who earn $200 a trip, would have carried the marijuana up to the highway and loaded it into a waiting...