Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...count on it, because the only consistent thing about the Harvard basketball team is its ability to lose games it should win and its knack of playing such a boring brand of basketball that nine o'clock classes seem exciting by comparison...
Smith said he feels Harris has "hardcore support" that he can count on in every primary. He added that if Harris doesn't do well here, "it is on to New York...
...built several centuries ago by a certain Ernest of Bavaria. Who was he? A count, a duke, a prince, an emperor? It doesn't matter much...
Jack Barnaby said that he "doesn't want to count a lot of chickens before they're hatched," but unless a major disaster besets the Harvard squash team in New Haven next Saturday, Barnaby might as well start counting...
Other scandals are still emerging or growing. It is not known yet exactly how many U.S. military officers and high-ranking Pentagon civilians accepted the hospitality of Northrop and other defense contractors at hunting lodges; the current count is 101. Some highly principled companies are investigating their overseas activities on their own. G.D. Searle, the pharmaceutical firm, last month announced that it had discovered payments of $ 1.3 million to "foreign government employees or their agents." While the making of such voluntary disclosures is admirable, it intensifies a troubling question: When will the scandals ever...