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Word: totality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 41, best-organized and most ruthless of the rebel leaders, heads a faction of the Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party). Despite his outspokenly anti-Western views, he is reportedly allotted 25% of the total U.S. weapon supply by the Pakistanis, more even than Rabbani. An engineer by training, Hekmatyar is a religious extremist who would keep Afghan women in purdah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Rebels with Too Many Causes | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...demonstration in Bhopal, some 200 women carried placards reading THE GOVERNMENT HAS BETRAYED US. Others called for the hanging of those responsible for the Bhopal leak. The main opposition party in the Indian legislature branded the settlement "a total sellout by the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damages For A Deadly Cloud | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...charge, by contrast, is collected as | part of restaurant revenue and is then paid out to waiters on an hourly basis or under an incentive plan based on how much food they sell. At Del Frisco's in New Orleans, waiters receive $8 an hour or 10% of weekly total sales, whichever is greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving Tips: Here comes the service charge | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Whan's ultimate goal is to phone every household in North America each year with a personal invitation to attend church services. That would require 2 million callers to contact 100 homes apiece -- a total of 200 million heavenly junk calls. No problem, says Whan. "It literally could be done in three hours." Even St. Paul might be impressed. If the telephone had existed in his day, he could have evangelized from his living room instead of wandering over land and sea for two decades. Just imagine the sales pitch: "How are you this evening? Good. My name is Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Many Are Called | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...with Democratic Congressman Romano Mazzoli of Kentucky, wrote the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. It is a crisis with which the U.S., despite its cherished history as a nation of immigrants, is not prepared to cope. "We have no population policy," complains a State Department official. "No total concept on which to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Immigration Mess | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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