Word: totals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that more than 27,000 Communists died in the attacks and, even allowing for considerable inflation of the figure, the ratio of enemy dead to those of the allies was worse than 7 or 8 to 1. Of the 28 provincial capitals seized across the country, not one remained totally in enemy hands. An astonishing total of more than 5,000 Communist suspects were taken. By contrast, the allied dead numbered 2,707-920 of them Americans, 1,733 South Vietnamese and 54 other allied soldiers...
...myself," she said. "I'll skate as well as I can." Dressed in chartreuse, and skating to the strains of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, she began a dazzling array of acrobatic leaps and spins. Her artistry won her a rousing ovation from the crowd and a total score of 1,970.5 points, 88.2 more than Runner-Up Gaby Seyfert of East Germany...
...might recall that the tax-rate had been rising at an average annual rate of $8.00 a year; the city had lost 100,000 people in ten years; we had lost $500 million in assessed valuation in 25 years (that's one quarter of our total assessable base. But more importantly than any of these losses, the city had lost the confidence of both its investors and its residents: only two buildings of any significance had been built in Boston in over 35 years; major insurance companies across America would not loan money in Boston; our credit rating had been...
...instance. People don't remember anything of when it was started, all they might remember is that it was cleared in 1957. They forget that I wasn't Mayor then. I inherited a place that was cleared with a contractual obligation. The West End hurt because it was a total clearance project; the nation learned a lesson from the West End. Federal policy at the time almost mandated that procedure. It wouldn't have been done that way if I had been Mayor, even if we had to wait to change the policy. In any event it was done...
Sorokin objected to the enormous grants, often from the government, which now finance so much of scholarly research. He once said with pride that during his six years at the University of Minne-sota he wrote a dozen books, and received a total of $43.40 in grants...