Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCurdy can count on at least eight excellent competitors, but a flock of injuries and minor hindrances prohibit him from formulating any sort of stable top five...
...been forced to realize-as I already had-that however hard you try, it doesn't make any difference." A Cliffie said, "I wrapped myself in a cocoon and shut out the world-not because I wasn't aware of what was outside, but because it didn't count...
...cool American summer of 1969, a Thermidor convalescence from the long fever of racial tumult seems to be under way. There has been no wholesale rioting in the black ghettos of the U.S. since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. By a Department of Justice count, the number of racial disturbances of all sizes has fallen off sharply in 1969 from the two previous summers (see chart, next page). The 1965 holocaust of Watts left 34 dead and $40 million in property damage; 43 died in the Detroit riots of 1967 and damage there was also...
Last month, however, the Board decided to count as part of demand deposits the dollars that U.S. banks borrow overnight from their European branches. On that basis, the Board concludes that the money supply has actually been growing at a 3% annual rate-maybe. Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, questions whether the Board has been making seasonal adjustments properly; he suspects that the money supply early this summer may have been growing more slowly than even the old figures would indicate. McCracken said recently to a group of banking students...
Codified Concierges. But Gramont, a French count by birth and a Pulitzer prizewinning journalist by trade (via Yale and the New York Herald Tribune), is really offering a well-packaged literary supermarket. His hope, clearly, is that readers in need of predigested fact and opinion should search no farther. Furnished with a vast array of knowledge-much of it the result of his French secondary-school education -he includes generous helpings of statistics, history, philosophy and lore...