Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be days before Alaskans could count the precise loss of life and property, months before the destruction could be wiped away and the towns rebuilt. The cost could be counted in scores of lives; in dollars it ran to as much as a quarter of a billion...
...someone like him was Secretary of Defense." The President likes people who come to him with decisions and ideas, and McNamara's abilities in that respect, plus his devotion to public service and his unshakable self-confidence, enhance his potential. Moreover, he is an independent Democrat. He can count on some built-in support from his native California. And he would almost certainly sit better with Southerners than Bobby Kennedy...
...SALVADOR: In 1961 opposition parties were thoroughly discouraged when President Julio Rivera's National Conciliation Party won all 54 seats in the legislature. They even boycotted the presidential election the next year. A reform-minded, military man, Rivera was embarrassed, promised an honest count on the basis of proportional representation for 1964. The opposition remained skeptical but campaigned vigorously through the tiny Central American republic. When the votes were tallied, Rivera's party retained 32 Assembly seats; the Christian Democrats took 14 seats plus the mayoralty of San Salvador, while another middle-of-the-road party...
That, of course, is just what they were playing, in a season that, by official count, has attracted more fans than ever before...
...open or closed, holes may be present or absent from a punched card, bits of magnetism may or may not be spotted on a tape. But whatever the computer memory is composed of, it uses, in effect, only two words: yes and no. As a result, the machine can count only in what mathematicians call binary notation. Familiar decimal numbers, which are composed of the ten digits, 0 through 9, must be translated into binary notation before they are fed into a computer...