Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little incentive to teach well or to take on administrative duties. Says one scientist: "I have very little incentive except my own desire to look good before the class." A colleague concurs, saying, "I hate to stand up there and look like a jerk...even though it doesn't count...
...Angeles showed Hart leading 29% to 27%, with a stunning 34% undecided. The conclusion many observers are drawing is that California Democrats, used to casting meaningless votes after a nomination has long since been locked up, are waiting to make up their minds now that their ballots will really count...
...other states voting that Tuesday are New Mexico, South Dakota and West Virginia.) But if Hart wins the two pivotal June 5 primaries, says a Mondale aide, eyes rolling heavenward, "it will be a war." Mondale would have the unmistakable aura of a loser, despite his huge delegate count. "Don't overlook chemistry," says Hart of the convention cauldron. "Chemistry can overcome mathematics...
...opposition knew that it would need every ounce of persistence to maintain that gain as the count dragged on. On the day after the election, NAMFREL estimated that the government was losing in 97 constituencies. As the days passed, that figure steadily dwindled. Though the decline was explained in part by late-arriving returns from rural areas where the K.B.L. is strongest, it inevitably aroused suspicions that the government was rectifying its losses by shamelessly altering the returns. Whatever the final tally, Filipinos may now at last have some kind of check on Marcos' one-man, one-party rule...
...once, the opposition refused to shrug off such election chicanery. As members of the government-dominated election commission inexplicably dawdled over counting votes, demonstrators conducted a candlelight march on Manila's city hall, waving placards that proclaimed, NINOY, YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN!, TALLY SHEET, NOT TALLY CHEAT! and ONE VOTE, ONE COUNT! In the capital's commercial center of Makati, a recount took away the victory of UNIDO Candidate Aurora ("Au-Au") Pijuan-Manotoc, 34, the former wife of Sportsman Tommy Manotoc, who is now married to the President's daughter Imee...