Word: count
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thrill I get from sending them, as the targets themselves offer mostly embittering experiences. Granted, more frequently than not, I'm writing complaints, but they are always polite and generally in the form of queries. That's what we're taught at Harvard--it's not the answers that count but the questions. The world should be grateful to me for gracefully pointing out its inconsistencies...
...most traumatizing of all my campaigns is my non-existent relationship with Lyle Lovett. He just doesn't answer fan mail. Of course he has better things to do with his time, he's busy doing Julia, but the little people count too. It's important for him to know how much he makes me smile ,how he's one of two men who can make me cry when he sings. Since Elvis is dead, Lyle is the only one with an address...
...only 54% of American men and 61% of women could expect to celebrate their 65th birthdays; after they did, the men could expect to live 13 more years, the women 15. By 1990, though, 72% of men and 84% of women could count on reaching the age of 65-and those were percentages of a much larger population. Once past retirement age, the men would live an additional 15 years and the women 20. Some experts think most babies born this year will live for 85 or even 90 years...
...count, some 75 counties have already adopted or are considering measures that contest federal rights over public land within their borders. The new push for local land control resembles the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s, when Westerners fought the Federal Government over land-use issues. The new drive, however, is better organized and more widely supported. The Western States Coalition, founded only 13 months ago, advocates local land control and has the support of hundreds of county and state officials and private interest groups. The coalition is pushing to give ranchers and others greater access to federal lands...
...count in my last week's English 178x section yielded the following results: four ball-pointers, seven roller-ball-users and a lone pencil person. Hmmm. Is the roller-ball phenomenon a throwback from days of fountain pen prevalence? Perhaps proud owners cherish their Pilot Precises and their UniBall Deluxes for their decisive, permanent ink or for the little windows through which they can watch the ink go down and think, "boy, I sure write a lot!" The Harvard humanities notetaker comes to adore the flowing pages upon pages of intellectual-looking lecture notes...