Word: count
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...numbers of Cuban refugees, which waned during the recent storms there, are surging again. Wednesday's count: 2,159. The Coast Guard expected a similar number today...
...count there have been 148 health-care-related charts in the House, vs. five to 10 for the crime bill...
...Carlos can count on the same bed for many nights to come as he waits to stand trial. He has ordered his lawyers to file suit against French agents, whom he claims drugged, bound and abducted him from Sudan. In Paris the Justice Ministry is vowing to open old files that could compel Carlos to stand trial at least four times. Meanwhile, Berlin's attorney general is threatening to seek extradition for a 1983 bombing. In the Middle East, Arabs are bracing for shocking disclosures, since Carlos is "a walking encyclopedia of terrorism," says investigating magistrate Bruguiere. An East European...
...have ended for good late Thursday night in Oakland, California, with the sadly appropriate third strike as A's pinch hitter Ernie Young whiffed on a fast ball from strikeout king Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners. With that final, futile swing, the national pastime went down for the count as the more than 750 members of the Major League Players Association began their long- dreaded strike, baseball's eighth work stoppage since 1972. Never before have the games been halted this late in the season. Never before have the October play-offs and the World Series been in such...
...judge freed Mel Reynolds on his own recognizance after the first-term Chicago Congressman showed up in court to answer a 20-count indictment for statutory rape, child pornography and other charges. Reynolds -- a former Rhodes Scholar once seen as "the Great Black Hope of Chicago politics," according to TIME reporter Julie Grace -- lashed out at the indictments as the products of a publicity-seeking local prosecutor and a racist justice system. But Grace says his case will probably slide further downhill tomorrow when an alleged accomplice goes to court: Edward "Eddie" McIntyre, a Chicago water department employee...