Word: totality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final and at times fatal obstacle. Weary and bewildered, pursued by the Border Patrol and sometimes carrying small children, as many as 150 people a night dart out into the hurtling freeway traffic. Already, seven fatalities have been reported this year. Since the body count began in 1985, the total has reached an alarming...
...bail out the savings and loan industry is getting little help from depositors, who are withdrawing their money at an inconvenient moment. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, said last week that in January thrifts suffered a record monthly net-deposit outflow of $10.7 billion (total remaining S & L deposits: $964 billion). Because Bush's proposed $200 billion bailout package is to be financed in part from the thrifts' federal insurance premiums, which are based on the size of their deposits, the withdrawals could reduce that source of Government income and increase the share borne...
Since only a few hard-core ideologues still believe that lowering marginal tax rates produces an actual increase in revenues, Lindsey had to content himself by telling the gathered students that lowering the top marginal rates makes the rich pay a larger share of the nation's total tax bill...
This is true, but misleading. That "larger share" is smaller in actual dollars. Revenues from corporate income taxes and income taxes from the top brackets actually declined in real terms from 1980-1987. This represents a larger proportion only because total revenues fell so dramatically after the fiscally irresponsible...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph J. Aronica declined to comment when asked whether there would be more guilty pleas or how extensively Berlin's testimony might be used against other defendants. He said only, "The total investigation is moving along very quickly...