Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle class families, 37 per cent non-white and 14 per cent foreign-born. The sample of 80 was selected randomly from 754 families. Interviews were done in person or on the phone after a letter was delivered explaining the study. I had very few refusals (which I count as negative responses) and there was no discernable difference between the attitudes expressed by those interviewed in person and those expressed over the phone...
...reservists just called to active military service will be facing no small battle on the home front. During tours that can last as long as two years, spartan soldiers' pay will have to be stretched to cover civilian responsibilities. Yet a fortunate few will be able to count on a financial ally: U.S. businesses that sense a duty to their duty-bound employees...
Though the practice is by no means widespread, many companies are helping their former weekend warriors with financial aid, including substantial supplementary pay. Among the leaders is Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose called-up family men can count on receiving the difference between service pay and 75% of their civilian salary for at least four years. Even unmarried draftees who have been with the company for at least 16 weeks, go to induction with an extra week...
Needless to say, the lovers count for a lot in this version. The actors are more than up to the weight of the burden. Relaxed and elegant from first to last, Janet Bowes as Portia sails through the play with an effortlessness one almost never finds in a house production. As far as I'm concerned, Dudley House can put her in any part they want...
...computer at the office of the Harvard University Controller will count the estimated 9000 ballots. Harvard's IBM System/360, Model 30, can count ballots at the rate of 1000 a minute...