Word: totalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic Touch. The visiting churchmen had more important issues to face than Hargis-style hostility. In its two decades of existence, the World Council has grown into an organization of 232 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with a total constituency of more than 300 million people. Yet its ecumenical mission of Christian unity is increasingly taking second place to more pressing problems: the demands for social and economic justice by underdeveloped countries; the rising ,clamor of young churchmen for a greater voice in ecclesiastical policymaking; the drift of many dissident believers into "underground" worship, imperiling the very foundations...
...total hysterectomy, removing the ovaries as well as the uterus, was a drastic procedure that upset a woman's hormonal balance and was a possible danger to her emotional balance as well...
...meager 1968 trade surplus, only $726 million last year compared with $7.8 billion as recently as 1964, is an other painful result of inflation. Although the total volume of U.S. exports actually rose, climbing domestic price levels attracted a torrent of imports. If some $2.5 billion of U.S. exports paid for by Government aid are excluded, the nation actually suffered a trade deficit last year...
...share dividend. When the payout is voted by a board filled with newcomers from another company that has just acquired control, eyebrows go up all around. Last week they were raised when Manhattan-based Great American Insurance Co. decided to dip into its $300 million surplus to distribute a total of about $171 million in securities. Reason: National General Corp., a Los Angeles-based moviemaker and would-be conglomerate, recently picked up 75% control of Great American Holding Corp., the fire and casualty insurance firm's parent holding company...
...decade, mainly because it concentrated on personal fire and casualty policies, a competitive area plagued by rising losses. Like many other hard-pressed insurance concerns, Great American concentrated on making profits in the stock market, where it accumulated a portfolio worth about $310 million-more than half its total assets of $567 million. "It's ridiculous to leave that much capital lying around when money is so expensive," says Eugene V. Klein, National General's chairman. "There are sounder uses...