Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people. Likewise, the Chief Executive who reads the domestic polls every night for political guidance is apt to be paralyzed each morning. The leader who views every White House catfight as apocalyptic will be a nervous wreck in his first year. Ronald Reagan is not guilty on any count...
...Fort Lauderdale "company" owned waterfront homes and office buildings in Florida, apartments in Houston and a town house in New York City that was later sold for $2 million. With his partners, he maintained a fleet of three dozen or more boats-no one kept count-and a cash reserve so large they could shrug off million-dollar business losses. Eventually they had to buy their own turboprop airplane to ferry overflowing cash profits to uninquisitive banks in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands...
...uncommon in South Florida to see a stream of young people come up to a teller and count out just under $10,000 from overstuffed shopping bags for deposit. The major operators, who find this too cumbersome, have initiated a reverse airlift, sometimes using the same planes that fly drugs into Florida to take suitcases of cash out of the U.S. to discreet banks in places like the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands. Other dealers simply pay a commission, $ 10,000 a week or so, to the dwindling number of Florida bankers willing to fudge or forget their transfer reports...
Donald Regan, 62, Treasury Secretary, after being asked to count from one to 25 and back again eight times while a faulty microphone was checked during a taping of ABC'S Nightline: "You know, I had to take this same test to become Secretary of the Treasury...
Wait a minute. What was that? The Man stops the projector and backs it up. Now forward again, this time slowly, Cuccia moves in behind the center and starts the count. Suddenly he pulls up and ambles off to the right, without the ball. What the.... The pencil snaps, and The Man pauses, as the absurdity continues. The ball is snapped back to the halfback, number four. Number four...he's rolling right...number four...and he's throwing a pass. Downfield a receiver is open, but the ball sails over his head...