Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Library complex as a whole, apart from the Institute, this "body-count" has a simple but fundamental impact. The Library's planners worried a great deal about integrating the Memorial with the surrounding community. If the problem were not suitably solved, the site might simply become a beautiful -- but hardly used -- memorial once the inevitable flood of tourists ebbed. With Harvard's new building, this distant prospect now seems unrealistic. (Another answer, advanced early and supported with great zeal by Mrs. Kennedy, was to create a lively, variegated commercial district of small shops, restaurants, and book stores that would attract...
...support that the announcement would cost the Chancellor, the U.S. could ease the terms of the off-set agreements, which require Germany to buy a total of $675 million in military equipment this year to balance U.S. dollar expenses in keeping troops in West Germany. The Germans want to count missile purchases in fulfilling their obligation, and have pointed to their worsening balance of payments in pleading for this change in the agreements. So far they have bought only one half of the necessary equipment, but the U.S. has refused to allow them any modifications...
...donors are the prime targets for the science drive. A substantial amount would come from federal funds -- perhaps more than half. Corporate money ranks next. "We can't count on nickels-and-dimes contributions," Trottenberg said...
...next morning NFWA supporters gathered in Filipino Hall to await the results of the election. Chavez came to the front of the hall early in the afternoon and announced that by unofficial count the NFWA had won. Among the fieldworkers, the voters had gone almost two to one for the NFWA. In the shed, the NFWA made a surprisingly strong showing by capturing one-third of the ballots. Of the 1100 votes cast, only 19 were for "no union...
Since Warner does not conceal his allegorical purpose-indeed, he flaunts it-the reader is nervously aware all along that the slender narrative has second billing. What happens, then, does not really count. What counts is Warner's message, which he states and restates with a bald clarity of which Kafka, whom Warner admires and emulates, never felt the need. "I began to see," says Roy, "that this life, in spite of its drunkenness and inefficiency, was wider and deeper than the activity in which we were constricted by the iron compulsion of the air vice marshal...