Word: count
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, Circuit Judge William Howard admonished the spectators and participants not to show any emotion. It seemed an impossible request, given the passion and compassion aroused by the case. Yet when June Miller, the Union County, South Carolina, clerk of court, read "guilty of murder" on the first count, the courtroom froze as if a tableau. Only Susan Smith seemed to move, shuddering at what had just been said and was about to be said again. "Guilty of murder," said the clerk on the second count...
...matter what the numbers show, the voices that count belong to everyday citizens hardened to the reality of city life. Do they feel safer? Brenda Clark, 45, still complains about the nightly crackle of gunfire outside her South Bronx home. Anna McClendon, 71, distrusts police efforts to enlist civilians in identifying criminals. Says she: "You're liable to get yourself killed." That may be true, but on paper, anyway, the streets aren't as mean as they used...
...Gallup poll on the issue found that in the past two years, support for recognition has risen from 48% to 61%, with just 27% now opposed. The number of MIA "discrepancy cases"--airmen shot down over North Vietnam and still unaccounted for--is down to just 55 by official count, and most people seemed resigned to the idea that the fortunes of war are bound to leave a few mysteries. A day after Clinton's announcement, Wayne Lancaster, 49, of Old Bridge, New Jersey, was gazing at Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, whose black granite slabs are incised with...
...claim that 83.5% of the images stored on the Usenet newsgroups are pornographic. Hoffman and Novak maintain that a more telling statistic is that pornographic files represent less than one-half of 1% of all messages posted on the Internet. Other critics point out that it is impossible to count the number of times those files are downloaded; the network measures only how many people are presented with the opportunity to download, not how many actually...
What show? The one with no labor agreement (still), no commissioner (Bud Selig doesn't count), no national television contract, no marketing director, 30 agendas for 30 franchises, 80 different player agents, a statistically meaningless 144-game schedule and millions of seats now empty because the occupants have left for good...