Word: count
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's diplomats in Washington do not count among Embassy Row's real swingers, even though Freeman will enjoy an annual entertainment allowance of $96,000. Disliking cocktail parties, he prefers dinners for a score of guests or fewer, a custom that will not devalue the cachet that Washington society has always attached to invitations embossed with the lion and unicorn of Britain. As a man who professes to enjoy most of all "lurking round the edges of politics," Ambassador Freeman is bound to find plenty of entertainment in Byzantium-on-the-Potomac...
...obedience to Moslem law, he never had more than four wives at a time, but divorce was simple and the wives many. No one seems to know how many children he sired, although one count puts it at 45 sons and 46 daughters. (One report speaks of the proud moment when three wives gave birth to three children on the same...
Logically, the companies that pay best count on individual executives for considerable decision making that directly affects profits. Often the decisions involve annual changes in styles and products. The most generous companies include department stores and manufacturers in the areas of tobacco, aerospace, drugs, electronics, cosmetics, appliances and autos. The highest-paid U.S. executive is the biggest decision maker in the world's largest company: General Motors Chairman James Roche, who in 1967 earned $733,316 in salary and bonus...
...many, leaving home meant that there would be no older brother or sister to take care of the younger children, often in homes where there was no father or no mother. Or it meant that the family could not count on the extra income that the student might contribute if he worked while he went to college nearby. It is not surprising that most were skeptical at first. To the staff, this was the most challenging and exciting part of the summer-talking with the students. It struck me all the more because I was only three years beyond that...
...Associated Press count showed 27 storm-related deaths in eastern New England, most due to heart attacks brought on by over-exertion...