Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vietnamese think they know why. A joke is making the rounds in Hanoi: Viet Nam has done everything it can to lure the Americans to open an embassy there, and nothing has worked; the only option left is to declare war on the U.S., then immediately surrender and count on the beneficence that Americans show those they have defeated...
WITH or without a large Harvard contingent, success should grace Saturday's marchers. The easiest way to measure this success is just to count heads. Organizers expect a million people but probably will not get more than half that. That's okay, though; even a third of a million is comparable to the largest Washington demonstrations...
...Besides Mobuto and his family, only 80 people in the country count. At any one time, 20 of them are ministers [in the government], 20 are exiles, 20 are in jail, and 20 are ambassadors. Every three months, the music stops and Mobuto forces everyone to change chairs...
...tournament] is really important because our Eastern Indoor is in the fall and we want to prove we're still first in the East," Rival said. "I think a lot of people will count us out because two of our top three players are gone, but the freshmen have integrated and made the transition really well...
...most indelible image of the spill is that of dead and dying creatures. The body count so far includes 34,000 birds (among them were 139 bald eagles) and 984 sea otters. (One man also died, crushed in the dumbwaiter of a ship in the Exxon cleanup fleet.) Scientists believe the actual wildlife toll is much higher. Recovered bird carcasses, for example, may represent only 5% to 10% of the victims. Many dead otters disappeared under the water, and searches for other animals were limited to the high-water marks on some of the affected islands to respect the wishes...