Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roger Rosenblatt complains that, in comparison with Boston, professors do not count in Washington. I haven't suffered from a lack of parties to attend. What I do miss in the capital, like Mr. Rosenblatt, are ideas. The bureaucrats, businessmen, journalists, lawyers, lobbyists, politicians and sycophants who constitute our capital's elite are exactly like their fellow citizens elsewhere. They ask not to be disturbed by thought, especially new thought...
...another of those elusive qualities that can influence presidential achievement. It can come in all dimensions, from Harry Truman's expletives to Lyndon Johnson's appeals for civil rights that stirred the entire nation. The essence of eloquence is that behind the language lies commitment: the words count. There are 13 million small businesses in the U.S. employing half the labor force and supporting 100 million people. If Ronald Reagan's promises of relief from taxes and regulation are not sincere, no amount of fancy speechwriting will cover the failure. Dwight Eisenhower, after all, had trouble arranging...
While 25 policemen stood guard inside Courtroom 3-C of the Guilford County Courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., and police sharpshooters patrolled the surrounding rooftops outside, Jury Foreman Octavio Mandulay slowly announced the verdicts. There were five counts of murder and one count of rioting against each of the six defendants. As the litany of "not guilty" grew, a relative of one of the accused choked back a sob. By the time the 36th and final "not guilty" was called out, the defendants themselves were weeping...
...what he didn't count on was the play of a few newcomers. These guys weren't freshmen, so Ford might have been able to predict their contribution to the team. "John Lyons, Richard Berkman, Lance Ayrault, and Leighton Welch gave the program a zing, they were very gung ho. That in itself was a surprise. But I didn't think those four would make the step up and do so well," Ford said. Even off the field it was apparent that they were live wires...
...spores, permitting them to germinate and make their deadly toxin. It is a nerve poison that produces an array of symptoms including constipation, lethargy, poor feeding, weak crying and general floppiness. More than 170 cases of infant botulism have been officially reported worldwide since 1976, but the count is probably far too low. Many physicians are still unfamiliar with the illness, and no simple diagnostic test exists. Evidence suggests that infant botulism accounts for at least 5% of the more than 8,000 cases of sudden infant death that occur yearly in the U.S. alone...