Word: count
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There aren't many people you can count on seeing twice a day, everyday...
Nationally-ranked and number one seeded Princeton is the favorite to win the championship, but Harvard refuses to count itself...
Country music seems right on time for the abstinent '90s. Randy Travis' first hit single, On the One Hand, set the tone in 1985, in an ambivalent lament that "on the one hand, I count the reasons/ I could stay with you/ . . . But on the other hand/ There's a golden band/ To remind me of someone/ Who would not understand." Today the title song of Mike Reid's album Turning + for Home is a tribute to his baby daughter; George Strait is praising the immutability of paternal love in Love Without End, Amen; Alan Jackson is chanting...
...Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States, the Founding Fathers decided to count three-fifths of a state's slaves toward its representation in Congress. Put another way, most blacks in America were, at one time, considered to be only three-fifths of a person...
...this, unfortunately, is as pertinent as ever today. After two world wars, some thought that we might be heading for something approximating world government. But nationalism proved stronger than anybody had expected. New nations proliferated, many of them hardly viable; at last count we have 170 sovereign states in the world speaking 4,000 different languages...