Word: count
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...Massachusetts attorney general's office is conducting an inquiry into Harvard's handling of last spring's Board of Overseers election in response to complaints that the University unfairly electioneered against pro-divestment candidates and tampered with the ballot count, officials in the state office said this week...
Finally, alumni charged that Harvard may have tampered with the vote count in the election. Midway through the ballot-collecting process for the election--after the controversy had intensified--Harvard hired a Boston accounting firm, Coopers and Lybrand, to count the ballots. But the University had already received and opened a portion of the ballots, prompting the complaint that the count may have been skewed...
...Vote Count Inquiry...
...alumnus who made the complaint about thevote count, Chester Hartman '57, said that such aletter from Coopers and Lybrand would notnecessarily convince him that the ballots were nottampered with. "I want to see the entire votedistribution," Hartman says
...name in any story about Carmel, Calif., is the most beloved two-hyphen entry, while "state-of-the-art " is such a successful three-hyphen innovation that it may be used several times a week without risking reproof from an editor. Though of lower wattage, nonhyphenated modifiers also count for something in journalese. Since "buxom blond" and "leggy redhead" are no longer in fashion, journalese has evolved alternate descriptions of females, like a "handsome woman" (virtually any female over 50) or an "attractive woman" (any woman at all). Negative journalese, a strong branch of the language, combines a complimentary word...