Word: counters
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...counter Chicago's boast of being the second largest U.S. city, California's boosters bragged in the '60s that Los Angeles County had more residents than Chicago's Cook County. Chicagoans windily replied that they had a more populous "consolidated metropolitan area," which they reckoned as stretching 54 miles along Lake Michigan, from Waukegan, Ill., to Hammond, Ind. Not so, said the Angelenos, who defined their "consolidated area" as including five contiguous counties of Southern California. Now, according to preliminary census figures, the argument seems to be over: Los Angeles may have gained 73,000 residents...
...Allen Counter, associate professor of Biology--"What I've learned in the ten years that I've been here is that the students who have problems are those who let this place overwhelm them. The key is to put Harvard in perspective and realize that the purpose here like any other school is to get a well-rounded education. All that glitters is not what it seems to be. In short, don't be overwhelmed by the aura. Look for the substance...
...Mondale aides expect to draw ever more frequently from material in the black binders. For instance, either candidate can hit back hard at Reagan's bid for the black vote by recalling his 1976 claim in a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., speech that working people at a supermarket checkout counter were "outraged" when they saw a "strapping young buck" buy T-bone steaks with food stamps. Carter-Mondale researchers have also found that in January Reagan said of U.S. attempts to prevent more countries from obtaining nuclear arms: "I just don't think...
This week's speech is likely to be the President's basic economic message for the election campaign. Carter will be attempting to offer a comprehensive economic plan to counter Republican Nominee Ronald Reagan's call for a 30% tax cut over the next three years and widespread reduction of Government regulation of business. The Carter proposal will focus on offering investment incentives to all industries and specific aid to those regions of the country that need technological overhaul, while charging Reagan with using a shotgun approach that will only worsen inflation...
Sadat the that such measures ran counter to the letter and spirit of the Camp David accord. He then recalled that he had proposed a formula that would restore Arab legal and historic rights in Jerusalem, but still keep the city united...