Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this landmark vote entail such a perverse set of requirements for passage? Why did advocates of the constitution help count the votes? Why did some voting tables go unattended? Despite the obvious improprieties, no apologies have been forthcoming from the "yes" advocates except to justify a tainted victory. Logic would suggest that the real apologia, is owed to the majority of undergraduates and that another election be held...
...formation of the National Football League. He says the test is to insure that they'll have something to talk about when they're married, but it appears more like a matter of entering a frightening stage of adulthood, and falling back on the only thing he can count on--football...
...want to know if we can count on your cooperation and counsel...
...magazine published remarks by Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, again cautioning the U.S. that there was no room for compromise. If Washington did not reverse its decision to supply Taiwan with weapons, Deng said, "let the relations [between the U.S. and China] retrogress. So be it." Administration policymakers cannot count on Chinese mistrust of the Soviet Union alone to ensure harmonious Sino-American relations...
...repeatedly warned that any use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. would lead to a no-holds-barred fight to the finish. The Soviets publicly disavow a first-strike option and chastise the U.S. for having one, but there is little doubt that their righteous-sounding doctrine would count for nothing in a crisis...