Word: count
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents came to visit last month, bearing gifts of food. Three suitcases full of food, in fact, holding a 60-count box of instant fat-free hot chocolate packets, a box of 20 microwave popcorn packets, an oversized two-bag Cheerios box, a container of chocolate chip and Macadamia nut cookies, and a whole box of assorted dried soups. Not to mention the 1000 plastic plates...
...surprised by this story, observing that Ovitz might have done better than just thanking Bronfman for taking care of his old man--and then asking for more. But then again, Ovitz is out of a job, and he can't be too careful. He has to make every million count...
Unfortunately for them, I was not "one of them." But the message to me was clear--if I was not "one of them" I did not count (or, at least, not as much as I would have had I been "one of them...
Deep below the city streets, Water Tunnel Three, one of the largest construction projects in American history, will bring pure water from upstate New York to Manhattan. What city planners didn't count on was that the water tunnel project would also bring together the Mafia and the Irish Mob of Hell's Kitchen in a plot to eradicate the unions and increase the bottom line...
Kelly's crew of Mafia godfathers, Irish thugs, federal agents and neighborhood boys reads like a police dossier. There is Butcher Boy, a psychotic neat-freak who lives on steroids, Twinkies and cocaine and who lost count of his kills at thirty men. There is Mary Moy, a pregnant FBI agent determined to uncover the construction conspiracy before a maternity leave takes her off the case of a lifetime. There is Vito Romero, a Mafia man devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter...