Word: counts
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Expendable Item. Administration officials also became fearful that the wheat issue might jeopardize the entire farm bill. Freeman took a count of the House, claimed that 210 members-only eight short of an absolute majority−would vote for the bill as it stood. In more objective surveys, House Majority Leader Carl Albert and White House Legislative Aide Larry O'Brien both realized that the bread-tax issue would cause major defections; they figured 170 votes for the bill at most. As Massachusetts Democrat Thomas O'Neill said: "I do not intend to reduce the excise taxes...
...legislature, and is certain to create even more bitter controversy if lawmakers in other states try to use it as a model. It declares that any school is "racially imbalanced" if more than 50% of the enrollment is nonwhite (but not vice versa), and calls for an annual head count to check the balance. Where an imbalance exists, local school authorities must devise plans to correct it. If they fail to do so, the state not only can, but must cut off state aid to that district...
...I.C.C.C. insists, the talking has produced admirable results. According to its own count, 8,000,000 people from 51 countries have aligned with the I.C.C.C. against the World Council and ecumenism. The U.S. adherents number about 3,000,000, most of them belonging to Presbyterian and Baptist churches. European followers are far less numerous; the biggest group is the 65,000-member Christian Reformed Church, which draws support from the sobersided Dutch farmers and fishermen of the Zeeland Province...
...diamond, and 3) announced, then called back seven successive pinch hitters before finally allowing the game to proceed. One day last month, to back up his claim that the umps were permitting flagrant use of the illegal spitball, he deliberately ordered Braves pitchers to moisten the ball, kept careful count of how many times (75) they got by with it, and released the statistic to sportswriters after the game. Bobby's latest project is to embarrass the whole city of Milwaukee−by giving it a National League pennant...
...Chicago Cubs did not hit a ball out of the infield until the eighth inning. But lim walked ten men, hit another, stretched the count to 3-2 against 14 batters. He loaded the bases on walks in the third inning, got out of that jam when Chicago's Billy Williams grounded out. In the ninth, he loaded them up again, but Don Landrum obligingly popped up to the infield. Maloney's teammates did their bit to contribute to the tension−by doing practically nothing at the plate. After nine innings, the score was still...