Word: count
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Count the archways between door and card-swiper...
...have to look this guy up, but my guy is Scott Larkee, a linebacker who graduated last year," Svicarovich said. "He was awesome. Oh, and if you count the pros, I say Mike Singletary...
...campaign against White by arguing that he had voted to overturn a death penalty 14 times. Later, the tactics became more sophisticated, and White's votes were compared to others on the court (some of whom, Ashcroft appointees, had voted against more death penalties than he), but the count-the-numbers approach betrays a cynical assumption that any vote to reverse the death penalty is suspect, that the courts should rubber-stamp death sentences instead of conducting meaningful review...
Americans studying in Canada may find that friends back home are ignorant of all but a few Canadian schools, like McGill. Fortunately, those who count--graduate-admissions deans and corporate recruiters--know better. A Canadian university degree is welcome at such top U.S. graduate schools as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Chicago and M.I.T. Major U.S. corporations such as IBM, Ford Motor and Arthur Andersen increasingly recruit at Canadian schools. Graduates of the University of Waterloo, with its world-class math and computer-science programs, are recruited by Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Film- production students at Concordia University...
...didn't pay to be a smart aleck. There were mock trials. I said, "I will not answer any of your questions." The next day they marched me to a large hall. They said, "Here is a piece of paper. If you don't answer these questions by the count of 10, we'll shoot you." They put a gun to my head and started counting...