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...increase of 18.5 million over 1970. Because of population shifts, the South and West will gain 14 congressional seats at the expense of the Northeastern and North Central states. The accuracy of these samplings raises another question: Why should the nation bear the expense and bother of a decennial head count at all? Experts generally agree on the need for the census. Says Ben Wattenberg, of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank: "At some point in this whole statistical system, somebody has got to do a count. Nothing else works unless you have a base number that...
Cossiga's Cabinet, born as a stopgap "government of truce" after last summer's inconclusive national election, caved in after the Socialists announced that they would no longer keep it afloat by abstaining on key votes.* Cossiga did not bother to go through the formality of a vote of confidence. After a brief parliamentary debate, he routinely visited the Quirinale Palace to submit his resignation; just as routinely, President Alessandro Pertini asked him to stay on as caretaker...
McLaughlin also calls the admissions committee "very fair and helpful." The former Notre Dame assistant coach says some highly-touted candidates do not even want to bother filling out an application or financial aid form. "We have to go out and get those kids--every school in the country wants to be good at basketball...
...extreme fuzzy appearance of their hair...someone said this was gotten by braiding their hair in tiny braids and leaving it that way while it was wet until it dried. Then they would take out the braids. From the looks of their hair they apparently didn't bother try and comb it out afterwards...
...therefore slower-before it is worked over by the competitors. Worse, the first racer out on the course has to set her own pace. Still, these were all minor annoyances compared to the fact that she had sprained her ankle the previous weekend. Oddly, the ankle did not bother her when she skated, but it did hurt when she ran, and that was just about as bad. Skaters run before a race to loosen their muscles, a vital part of their preparation...