Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minimize the possibility of error, Thomureasked that the recount be conducted by hand.Yesterday, the Election Commission hired about 40former poll workers to count the votes, payingthem $7 an hour, said Commissioner Edward J. Samp,one of the two commissioners supervising theprocess...
...Crimson blew Columbia out of the water by a score of 86-52 and sent Kenyon back to Ohio by a 107-31 count...
...Kulases joined millions of angry fellow travelers earlier this month in a consumer revolt that could roar out of California like a muscle car. By a 51%-to-49% count, the voters approved Proposition 103, which will slash insurance rates to 20% below November 1987 levels. Good drivers will get yet another 20% off. Although the vote covered all types of property and casualty insurance, the auto-premium cuts were the heart of the measure. The most breathless of its proponents expect its impact to rival that of Proposition 13, the 1978 California initiative that set off a coast...
...Counting the number of angels that fit on the head of a pin may be an appropriate part of your mission in the ivory tower, but here in the office we want to count the increase in our paychecks. We work hard at our jobs and we deserve to be compensated fairly. We deal with reality every day, not abstractions. We are the secretaries, the data entry operators, the accounting assistants, library workers and the technical support staff that carry out the daily mission of the University...
...include various expensive weapons -- the Stealth bomber, Seawolf submarine, D5 Trident missile -- soon to be out of development and ready for production. Bailing out faltering savings and loan companies and updating antiquated nuclear-production plans may require $70 billion more in new funding. Bush himself, by James Baker's count, has proposed $40 billion in additional spending for new domestic initiatives, including more than $6 billion in oil and capital-gains tax breaks. Upward pressure on the deficit will be inexorable. A combination of new user fees, tax-rate adjustments and other masking devices is the likely route Bush will...