Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government lawyers contended that the Census Bureau, which acknowledges that in 1970 it overlooked 5.3 million people, about 2.5% of the U.S. population, had spent more than $1 billion on advertising and other efforts to make the 1980 count more accurate. They added that adjusting the figures as demanded by Detroit and other cities would cause the bureau to miss the Jan. 1 deadline set by Congress for reporting the count...
...coach Joe Restic knows, that will be a tall order indeed. He will have to count on his increasingly-feared front of Justin Whittington, Tim Palmer, Chuck Durst and Dave Otto for a strong pass rush all afternoon, because the Harvard secondary has proved suspect, especially in clutch situations. However well the defense plays, Restic knows Army will put points on the board...
Coach George Ford instituted a 4-3-3 line-up in place of the usual 4-4-2, choosing to put some added offensive pressure on the UMass goal. The strategy worked, but only if you count absolute numbers of shots as an indication of a team's offensive firepower...
Still pumped up from its 0-0 tie at 11th ranked New Hampshire Saturday, the Crimson raced to a 3-0, first half lead, while outshooting the visitors by a 20-2 count...
When Black women discuss social issues today, Wallace says, they most often address two concerns: the jealousy they draw from Black men because they count as minority "doubles" to satisfy affirmative action quotas and the perceived "shortage" of marriageable Black men resulting from the larger population of Black women. Wallace also sees one of the Black woman's foremost problems as other people's unwillingness to take her seriously...