Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city landmarks are trotted count the poor neighborhoods, the sleazy pars, the high technology of the Loop Lven Risky Business's pulsating train makes an early apperance...
...covered the sarne era more adroitly and many of the characters, especially the adults, seem a bit cliche. Still. I found myself moved by the sympathetic portrayals of seemingly minor events in the book: weddings, births, the lighting of the Sabbath candles. Here, it's the little things that count. Writing about a century best defined by the word mass--mass, culture, mass movements, mass destruction--Potok has lived up to the novelist's task and reaffirmed, amidst all the tragedy, the dignity of an individual life...
...NUMBER OF AMERICANS behind bars has doubled in the last decade. These are currently 663,000 people incarcerated in the nation's prison and the count is growing fast. Many prisons are grossly overcrowded with several inmates occupying cells designed for one or two people. More prisons are being built, but the cost is staggering--100 are currently under construction at a projected total cost of $3.5 billion. Operating prisons is also extremely expensive, ranging from $13,000 to as much as $10,000 a year for each inmate...
...always thought preachers was lowlifes, weak people. It always looked like some kind of weirdo deal to me. Even their mouths looked funny to me. But since that night I've wore out more Bibles than I can count...
...Kaufman, who has led her team to a 5-3 record thus far (1-0 in the Ivies), is one tough competition. "She'll play sick, she'll play hurt," Usher says, "and you can count on her, day in and day out to give 110 percent...