Word: counted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing outside Leverett House. It's pretty calm, unless you count the 400 students slamming their bodies against the gate screaming "Party! Let us in! Party...
Nonetheless, he says, such a situation is infinitely preferable to a pseudonatural world in which no one can count on a regular pattern. And he says he is very encouraged by the response people have shown to his book...
...first count, liberals are mostly right. Reagan usually got the facts wrong when he railed against high taxes, Big Government, unnecessary regulations, welfare cheats, liberal hostility to religion, the communist threat, liberal softness on crime and defense--and all of his other ideological bugaboos. Sometimes he got confused. Sometimes he made stuff...
...census takers prepare for the 1990 population count, which could sharply shift the relative clout of states in the House of Representatives and force the redistribution of countless federal aid programs, one trend is already evident: as a group, Hispanics have grown five times as fast as the rest of the U.S. population since 1980. Their number has leaped 39% and is now 20.1 million, 8.2% of the U.S. total. The figures, released last week, came from a Census Bureau survey conducted in March, which made no attempt to distinguish between legal and illegal residents...
...hardly feel reassured by last week's events. The rebellion was the second failed attempt against him by the Panamanian military in the past 18 months, raising questions about whom the general can trust among his forces. Although a housecleaning of the P.D.F. will follow, Noriega can no longer count on even his inner circle. "This was no gringo plot," says a source close to Noriega. "This came from the general's inner core." That much, at least, can give Panamanians -- and Washington -- hope that Noriega's days are numbered...