Word: totals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baseball has been falling off for years as people discover how exciting other sports and forms of leisure activity can be. Compared with the violence and sophistication of pro football, the frenetic pace of hockey and basketball, baseball seems elementary, antiquated and soporific. It still draws more fans in total than other pro team sports. But that is only because there are 1,620 big-league baseball games each season (v. 182 pro-football games). Attendance per game in baseball has actually dropped by 2,639 fans over the past 20 years. Donald Deskins, a social scientist at the University...
Such unrestrained power holds enormous promise. Engineers estimate that by 1980, geothermal energy could be generating as much as 10% of the total electrical output of the U.S. And no matter how much is used, the heat is not likely to be used up. Once scientists master the technology, they should be able to recirculate condensed steam back into the ground, giving virtually unlimited life to wells in states as dry as Nevada. Even without such re-circulation, Italy's 64-year-old Larderello geothermal-power plant near Siena, where fumaroles gave Dante earthly inspiration for his Inferno...
Even without a surcharge, the economy in some ways had been tapering off on its own. Retail sales have leveled off since March, and inventories have gone up as a result. For the second quarter of 1968, the gross national product-the sum total of everything produced in the U.S.-rose $19.6 billion rather than the $20 billion to $22 billion that had been estimated. Government economists, believing that the economy is malleable, intend to take it from there. Once the surtax has cooled off the inflationary situation, Washington experts intend to heat up the economy again...
...ordered Maremont Corp. of Chicago, a leader in the automotive-parts field, with sales last year of $186 million, to a Washington hearing next month. The agency's aim is nothing less than to make Maremont sell off 40 companies that accounted for about $100 million of the total...
...courtyards. White-thatched dons suck on their briars tutorials on Greek philosophy. Oxford or Cambridge? In fact, the scene is black Africa, where not far from the manicured quadrangles natives still live in baked mud huts. Relics from the years of empire, Africa's 26 colonial-rooted universities (total enrollment: 45,000) have survived independence unprepared and incapable of dealing with the problems of the continent, where the illiteracy rate is 70% and still rising...