Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of rioting last year in the Negro slum district of Hough. Stokes's campaign advertising proclaims: DON'T VOTE FOR A NEGRO FOR MAYOR. Underneath, in smaller type, the ads urge: "Vote for a Man Who Believes in Cleveland, Carl B. Stokes." Figuring that he can count on East Side Negroes anyway, Stokes has concentrated his campaign on the white West Side where, as he notes, his support two years ago was "a little less than overwhelming." (He won 3% of the total white vote...
...seems, computer makers regard the leasing companies as welcome intruders, partly because their purchases help meet the manufacturers' need for vast amounts of cash to pay for research and development. IBM, with 70% of the U.S. computer market, dares not use its size to crush the dis count lessors, because of a 1956 antitrust consent decree...
Freeman. "Without it, statistics would still be a grubby business." Where once all they had to do was count, and perhaps draw graphs, statisticians are now "programmers," with a mystique all their own. Unquestionably, for the moment, numbers are king. But perhaps the time has come for society to be less numerically conscious and therefore less willing to be ruled by statistics...
Each morning, when Lord Thomson of Fleet wakes up in Buckinghamshire, he can never be quite sure how many newspapers he owns. Even if he knew the precise count before he went to bed, the figure could easily have changed overnight - such is the pace at which he has been accumulating papers. His latest acquisition is the Brush-Moore chain of twelve dailies and six weeklies scattered around...
...practice and stocktaking. He was homeward bound for a concert tour after 17 years in London, where he has produced a widely performed repertory of orchestral, ballet and chamber music, plus several operas that have been making the rounds of English and Continental houses. As for stocktaking, he could count in a substantial success two weeks ago at Newport, R.I., where...